‘The White Lotus’: Quebec City launching charm offensive to host popular HBO series

Quebec Metropolis needs to host the following season of the favored HBO collection The White Lotus and the area’s tourism arm is aiming to make it occur.

Destination Quebec City and its promoting company LG2 have created a presentation selling the provincial capital and its greatest property as an excellent filming spot, notably the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac.

Robert Mercure, head of the group, performs up within the pitch addressed to collection creator Mike White that Quebec Metropolis is a UNESCO world heritage website, boasting that it’s house to “essentially the most photographed lodge on the planet.”

The White Lotus is a social satire that follows visitors and staff at a resort the place they unleash their worst, most privileged impulses.

The primary season of the critically acclaimed present was set in Hawaii, and the second season befell in Sicily.

Season 2 wrapped earlier this month and a few tour operators in Italy are already promising to take guests to filming areas in Taormina and Palermo.

Mercure says buzzy exhibits like The White Lotus can have a significant influence on a vacation spot.

One instance is the South Korean collection Goblin, which was partly shot in Quebec Metropolis in 2016 and nonetheless attracts followers who need to go to filming areas — together with a set on the Fairmont that begins at $1,479 per evening.

“We’re inviting you to our metropolis as a result of we imagine Quebec Metropolis is a vacation spot extraordinaire,” Mercure says within the presentation, inviting White to go to, including that historic Quebec would give the present “a sure je ne sais quoi.”

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