Edinburgh the Brave

MOVIES are known to bring tourists in their wake — think the Dingle peninsula for Ryan’s Daughter, the west of Ireland for The Quiet Man, Greece’s Skopolos for Mamma Mia or Kefallonia for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, New Zealand for Lord of the Rings, or Florence for — well, just about anything ever put on celluloid.

Now, Scottish tourism is bracing itself for a surge of visitors following a stunning depiction of its natural and scenic beauties in the Disney Pixar blockbuster movie Brave.

But will an animated movie pack the same scenic punch and draw live tourism as real, down-to-earth locations, with an actual physical locus? Answers on a postcard home from Edinburgh, or from the Highlands, please.