Industry & Tourism
Screen-inspired travel is now a projected US$8 billion business, and 2026's biggest spikes — Muskoka, Yorkshire, Rome — show why the real adventure…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 13, 2026
Set-jetting — the habit of booking a trip to somewhere you first saw on a screen — is no longer a fun footnote in travel data. It is now a projected US$8 billion business in the United States alone , according to Expedia Group's 2026 forecast, and the single…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
The mechanics are simple and a little unnerving for anyone who works in tourism. A show lands, viewers fall for a landscape as much as the characters, and within weeks the search graphs for that landscape bend upward. Expedia's data — drawn with…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
Expedia's forecast reads like a location scout's diary. Beyond Muskoka and Yorkshire, it flags Tuscany ( Jay Kelly ), the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia ( People We Meet on Vacation ), Samoa (the live-action Moana ), Los Angeles ( Nobody Wants This ), Wellington…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
This is where those of us in Nepal allow ourselves a quiet smile. No major 2026 production is set in the Himalaya — and yet the scenery that set decorators and colourists spend fortunes trying to conjure already exists here, unedited. The blue of a glacial…
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