The Travel Issue
Welcome to THR’s first travel issue. From jet-setting hotspots to star-approved hideaways to the new ways film and TV are reshaping how we vacation, this is your guide to where Hollywood is sending the world next.
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Edited by Degen Pener • Designed by Alex Vasquez • Art Direction by Mary Franz
Yes, set-jetting is a real thing, and yes, it’s big business: Expedia projects that travel inspired by film and television will become an $8 billion slice of the industry in 2026 in the U.S. alone. Younger travelers, especially, are planning trips around what they stream, whether that means checking in to a White Lotus hotel, chasing down a castle from Wednesday or standing somewhere picturesque and pretending, however briefly, to be in someone else’s beautifully lit life.
But that’s only one lane in the new Hollywood-travel complex. Stars aren’t just filming in glamorous places anymore; they’re selling the experience itself, fronting travel shows, lending their names to luxe itineraries and, in Neil Patrick Harris’ case, helping turn a vacation into something closer to an immersive mystery production. Locations have become brands, hotels have become backdrops, and the line between hospitality and show business has gotten blurry enough to need room service.
Which brings us to THR’s first travel issue, a package devoted to all the ways entertainment now shapes how we vacation — from set-jet pilgrimages and celebrity hideaways to our cover story on You, Me & Tuscany, in which the cast and filmmakers make a pretty compelling case that a great location can be as potent a lure as any movie star.
cover story
Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page and director Kat Coiro flew halfway around the world to make a romantic comedy. Turns out Italy had the romantic part covered.
by David Hochman→ read the story
photographed by MARK GRIFFIN CHAMPION
behind the scenes
Inside THR’s Cover Shoot
lust for life
Partner Content
Hollywood on Holiday
“It’s Mamma Mia! I loved seeing them go on that vacation. Something about a love story set against stunning views just makes you want to hop right into the movie yourself.”
HALLE BAILEY
“Growing up in Zimbabwe, I remember watching E.T. and thinking, ‘I want to know what those neighborhoods feel like.’ I just wanted to see the suburban world that movies painted as so normal.”
REGÉ-JEAN PAGE
“When I was little, the movie that I remember watching over and over again was Gigi. I just wanted to go to Paris so badly after seeing it.”
JENNY SLATE
“I remember seeing Amelie for the first time. I’m sure it’s why I saved up all my money to go to France, and the first place I went to was Paris. It was the first trip I ever took on my own.”
Tessa Thompson
“Every Fellini film ever made me want to go to Italy, Rome specifically. And every black-and-white movie I saw from MGM made me want to come to America.”
Rebecca Hall
“Seeing Eat, Pray, Love made me want Julia Roberts to be my best friend. I wanted to go to Italy and eat pizza with her and [she’d] tell me that I could wear whatever jeans size I wanted to wear.”
Erin Doherty
“I grew up in Kansas. When I saw Fantasy Island, it made me obsessed with the idea of going somewhere tropical.”
David Dastmalchian
“An American in Paris. I grew up in a working-class family. At the time, saying that you wanted to go to Paris might as well have been saying that you wanted to go to Mars.”
Mary Bronstein
“I really liked the movie Dumb and Dumber. It made me want to go to Aspen.”
Asif Ali
“George of the Jungle. Something about him swinging through the vines and being out in the open air gave me such a sense of adventure and made me want to travel.”
Brandon Finn