It focuses on the area near Akureyri (population 18,000), the largest town in the north of Iceland, where up to 270 cast and crew were based while filming season three of the show. Our tour is led by local guides Jon Thor Benediktsson (who also acted as a guide for the Game of Thrones crew) and Illugi Már Jónsson. The organisers will even lay on an outdoor feast, eaten around a table carved from glacial ice, with guests keeping warm under black cloaks and animal skins similar to those worn by soldiers of the fictional Night’s Watch. Launching in May, it will take fans to Dubrovnik (which doubles as Kings Landing, capital of fictional Westeros) and tour other locations on Croatian islands then it’s on to Iceland, staying in luxury hotels and visiting several locations in the north and south of the country. Rather more exotically, a new nine-night Game of Thrones “set-jetting” holiday from luxury tour operator Black Tomato is the first to combine the series’ warmest and coldest locations (missing out the wet parts). Tourism in Northern Ireland has already been boosted by the connection, with suggested itineraries available on the tourist board website, including a three-day self-drive tour taking in mainly coastal sites such as Ballintoy, seen on screen as the always-wet Iron Islands. Nor is the country alone in benefiting from the series, which is set in a variety of locales and filmed in Northern Ireland, Morocco and Croatia as well as Iceland. Iceland last week reported a dramatic increase in visitor numbers – international arrivals in January were up 40 per cent compared to 2013 – though the tourist authorities say it’s too early to know how much of that was down to any “ Game of Thrones effect”. And it gives a focus to travel – you can’t see all of a city or country, so why not concentrate on the places that already have meaning for you and like-minded travellers? It’s a modern iteration of the literary pilgrimage – Stratford-upon-Avon has long thrived on the memory of its most famous dead resident, as has Haworth, the Yorkshire village that was home to the Brontë sisters.
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“Set-jetting”, visiting the locations where our favourite TV series are filmed, is growing in popularity, helped in part by the emergence of the new breed of long-running, high-budget, television series.
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