Set-jetting, or film tourism, is the act of traveling to real-world locations featured on screen to immerse yourself in the settings of your favorite stories firsthand. This new wave in travel blurs the lines between fiction and reality, allowing fans to step directly into the scenes that once played out on their screens–whether it’s sipping cosmopolitans in Manhattan à la Sex and the City, or soaking up the dramatic landscapes of Yellowstone.
But long before the modern streaming era, one private island in the Yasawa archipelago was already setting the stage for this global phenomenon.