Cinema tourism is not new and certainly isn't limited to Paris, but has grown along with the explosion of streaming services, said Cecile Lacoue, head of studies at CNC
In Paris, one foreign tourist out of two has watched "Lupin", the French-language surprise success with Omar Sy playing the gentleman thief. Image: Emmanuel Guimier/Netflix©
Four of five foreign tourists to Paris got an urge to visit after seeing a movie or TV series filmed in the City of Light, France's national cinema body said Thursday.
That's up from three-quarters in a previous study in 2018.
For one out of 10, it was their main reason for coming, and in half of those cases it was the Netflix series "Emily in Paris" (38 percent) and "Lupin" (11 percent) that spurred the trip.
The study was conducted by market research company Ifop for France's National Centre of Cinematography among six nationalities: Belgians, Spaniards, Americans, Britons, Germans and Chinese.
Cinema tourism is not new and certainly isn't limited to Paris, but has grown along with the explosion of streaming services, said Cecile Lacoue, head of studies at CNC.