Want to visit a movie set? Check out the Top 10 movies in 2010 that are reeling in the vacationers!

With the movie awards season well underway, roughly 20% of travelers have been inspired to travel to a destination after seeing it in a film, according to research released today by travelsupermarket.com.

-Film locations inspire vacation destinations for nearly 20% of travelers

-30% of under 20s likely to visit a place after seeing it on film

-This year’s top ‘location vacation’ destinations:  London, Paris, New York, Rome, Morocco, Tybee Island & Savannah, Georgia, New Mexico, and Tenerife, Spain.

For the respondents who had been “screenspired,” the most popular destinations within recent years are:

-7% to visit New York City – as featured in countless films and TV programs including Sex and the City 2 due out this year

-8% to visit New Zealand – as featured in the “Lord of the Rings”

Sunset in Phuket, Thailand; photocredit: mst7022

-7% to visit Thailand – as featured in “The Beach”

-United Kingdom is the ‘location vacation’ of choice, inspired by films Harry Potter.

-England, France and Italy location spots featured in best-selling novels like Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” have inspired travelers to retrace the spots filmed in the movie.

At Viscape.com, its no surprise that travelers are inspired by visiting movie set destinations.  The cinematography captures the best aspects of these locations.   To a certain degree, travelers would like to relive the fantasy through their own experiences.  We have seen the popularity of a film increase demand for vacation rentals at certain destinations.

Viscape’s top movie set destinations for finding vacation rentals include:

Vatican, Rome, Italy: Bernini's colnnade at St Peter's Square; photocredit: Joao Maximo

-New York City:  Demand for the New York Sex and the City Tour increased by 75 per cent after the release of the movie.

-London:  With every release of a Harry Potter film, demand for our ever-popular Hogwarts Tour increased.

-Rome, Paris London, Washington DC:  Dan Brown’s ever popular novel “The Da Vinci Code,” propelled movie tourism, with a 20% increase of Vatican tours and other locations featured in the movie after it was released.  There is similar hope for new visitors to travel to Washington DC once  “Angels and Demons” is released.

Check out the top screen-spired movies for 2010 and let us know what movies you like and where you’re thinking of traveling in the comments below.

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Top “screen-spired” destinations for 2010:

"When in Rome," a romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel

#10:  When in Rome

Movie set locations:  New York City, New York, Rome, Italy

Release date:  April 2010

IMDB rating:  5.3 out of 10

A romantic comedy film directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel, When in Rome premiered in January 2010.  Beth (Kristen Bell) is a successful and single curator at the Guggenheim museum in New York who is determined to find love.  She’s at a point in her life where love seems more like a luxury.  After years of waiting for Mr. Right, Beth decides one day to go to Rome to attend her younger sister’s whimsical and impulsive wedding.  While at the Trevi fountain, Beth picks up some lucky coins an suddenly find herself overwhelmed with suitors who follow her back to New York.  The suitors range from rich to gorgeous, with none of them offering up the full package.  Somewhere along the way she meets a reporter, Josh Duhamel who she befriends.

Want to find out more?  You have to watch the movie.  Want to be the lead in your own romance novel in Italy?  Find romance in Rome!  Do as the Romans do.  Stay in an apartment rental in Rome or a villa rental in Italy.

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"Dear John," a romantic-war drama, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Siefried

#9:  Dear John

Movie set location: Charleston, Edisto Island, South Carolina

Release date:  May 2010

IMDB rating:  5.5 out of 10

An American romantic war drama film, Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanada Seyfried was released February 2010 in North America.  The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Nicholas Sparks.  Inspired by the events of September 11, John (Channing Tatum) decides to become a soldier after he falls in love with his then girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried).  They decide to exchange letters after he is deployed to war in Aghanistan.

Does she wait for him?  Do they get married?  The best way to find out is to see the movie.  Or consider finding love on the beach this summer in South Carolina by spending a week in a Hilton Head beach house rental.

Stay tuned for the top juicy movies of 2010 in Part 2…..