Set-jetting hot spots for 2023: Holidays inspired by White Lotus, Bridgerton and more

Jillian Bolger takes us beyond the box set destinations

This year's biggest travel trend is TV tourism.

The Rocky montage on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That scene at Katz’s Deli in When Harry Met Sally. Platform nine and three quarters to Hogwarts at London’s King’s Cross Station. Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment building in Manhattan’s West Village. The McCallisters’ family house in Home Alone.

Different genres, different eras, different formats, yet each is the setting for an unforgettable movie or TV scene that’s as familiar as our own neighbourhoods. A part of popular culture’s canon of classics, each has become an unlikely site of pilgrimage since hitting the screens, spawning the TV Tourism or ‘Set-Jetting’ phenomenon.