"That's because Connecticut-the location for at least 22 holiday films by Hallmark, Lifetime, and others-is promoting tours of the quaint Christmas-card cities and towns featured in this booming movie market; places where a busy corporate lawyer can return home for the holidays and cross paths with a plaid shirt-clad former high school flame who now runs a Christmas tree farm. (Spoiler alert: they live happily ever after.)"
""It's exciting - just to know that something was in a movie and we actually get to see it visually," said Abby Rumfelt of Morganton, North Carolina, after stepping off a coach bus in Wethersfield, Connecticut, at one of the stops on the holiday movie tour. Rumfelt was among 53 people, mostly women, on a recent weeklong "Hallmark Movie Christmas Tour," organized by Mayfield Tours from Spartanburg, South Carolina. On the bus, fans watched the matching movies as they rode from stop to stop."
Fans are traveling to Connecticut to visit filming locations from sweet, predictable holiday movies. Connecticut hosts at least 22 holiday films produced by Hallmark, Lifetime and others, and promotes a Connecticut Christmas Movie Trail map. Tour operator Mayfield Tours organized a weeklong Hallmark Movie Christmas Tour that sold out in two weeks, offering transportation, hotels, some meals, tickets and a New York City Rockettes stop. On the bus, participants watched the matching movies as they traveled between stops. One tourist, Abby Rumfelt, described excitement at seeing real locations visually. Groups stopped at sites such as Heirloom Market at Comstock Ferre where Hallmark films were filmed.
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