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Excerpt from theguardian.com

Along the beachfront on the Thai island of Samui, vendors are busy setting up tables covered with souvenirs and sunglasses. Staff stand outside massage shops and restaurants gesture to passersby, hoping to entice in tourists.

Soon, there could be even more customers passing through the area. The island is one of several locations that will feature in the third season of The White Lotus, a series so popular that its previous settings, Hawaii and Sicily, both saw surges in demand from travellers.

On Samui, filming has been taking place this year at the Four Seasons, a luxury five-star hotel surrounded by tropical forest and looking out over the Gulf of Thailand.

Crew have been spotted around the island, with one restaurant owner posting Instagram photos with the actors Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood and Francesca Corney after they visited for dinner. Online fans – especially those of the Thai singer Lisa Manobal, from the K-pop group Blackpink – have shared updates on where filming is taking place.