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Put a 'White Lotus' on your beach

2023-01-18T11:29:18.434Z


The HBO series The White Lotus is not only a television hit and an unstoppable meme factory, but also a tourist attraction. After going through Hawaii and Sicily in its first two seasons, speculation is growing about where the new installment will be located. Places like Quebec City have even offered themselves as a stage


In HBO's latest hit series

The White Lotus

, the location is as important to the story as the drama that takes place within its walls.

The first season was shot at the Four Seasons Resort Maui in Wailea, Hawaii, while the second, which finished airing on December 11, moved to the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace in Sicily.

White Lotus is a fictitious chain of exclusive

resorts

that serve as the perfect setting to show the whims, contradictions and ridiculousness of the upper classes who can afford a week of vacation in such a place.

But the fact that it is a cruel parody has not prevented a race to be the venue for the third season.

Quebec City, in Canada, is the destination that, for the moment, is campaigning with the highest visibility to attract the attention of HBO, although after the first two seasons were located in the Pacific and the Mediterranean, the series creator Mike White hinted that for the third they could look at Asia.

Even so, the platform has not yet given official information about the argument or about the possible locations.

Does a shoot benefit the city where it is located?

For Pedro Bravo, author of

Excess Baggage.

Why tourism is a great invention until it stops being one

(Debate, 2018), this is not clear.

Bravo explains: "For hotels, the benefit of doing business with HBO is evident."

For territories this can also be beneficial in some cases.

Bravo cites the examples of tourism that attracted the

Doctor Mateo

series to Lastres (Asturias) or

Game of Thrones

in various towns in Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa.

But he thinks that the problem is that this phenomenon is seen only from the perspective of the tourism industry and that, in general, the money that arrives “does not go to the local, but to the big international capitals.

Promoting tourism with audiovisual content is a success, but from the point of view of the territories it is not necessarily better.

You have to think about the social and environmental costs, and the kind of jobs that are generated.”

At the moment there is no news about any Spanish hotel that has been offered as a possible scenario.

For the general manager of the Santo Mauro hotel in Madrid, Fernando Núñez, hosting a filming has benefits that go beyond economics, such as "making the brand known", but it must be taken into account that in the face of these requests "the hotel has to be closed exclusively because a shoot is not compatible with the accommodation of external clients”.

The Santo Mauro fits the profile of a hotel that could lend itself to a production the size of

The White Lotus

.

This 19th-century palace located in Madrid's Chamberí district is one of the most exclusive hotels in the Spanish capital, and one of the most iconic in the country.

Let them tell David Beckham, who made it his home during his time as a

galactico

at Real Madrid.

At Santo Mauro they believe that being the venue for a filming such as the series

The White Lotus

"is always valuable if the image meets the hotel's standards, as well as the quality of the service," according to Fernando Núñez by email. electronic.

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