Being by far one of the most popular culture media products of its time – Game of Thrones excites and inspires its fans and viewers not only to tune to their TVs …show more content…
Iwashita (2006) illustrates it on the example of Japanese tourists visiting UK locations associated with popular media products. In the similar context, the locations in the Game of Thrones series correspond to real locations in countries such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Croatia, Spain, etc. (see Appendix A), all becoming popular touristic destinations since the beginning of the show. Findings of Iwashita (2006) are supported by Rodriguez (2015) who claims that the research agency called Tourism Competitive Intelligence has discovered that in 2014, about 45 million international tourists picked a visiting destination based on a movie or a TV show filmed in that …show more content…
Watchers on the Wall is a community that unites all of them, and becomes a trustworthy news source for all the updates concerning the fan favorite TV and novel saga. In the recent years, the website is used as the main source for rumors, on-site production news, casting and script leaks, actor location updates, and, of course, on-set spoiler updates during the production process before new season