Locals throng towns and tourist attractions featured in Nomadland

The Badlands National Park in South Dakota is featured in the movie Nomadland. — RJA1988/Pixabay

Nomadland was partly filmed in the Western town of Quartzsite in Arizona, the United States, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year, but it’s still unclear if that will translate into more tourists for the place.

Regardless, Phil Bates, owner of a shop called Main Trading Post, told the Arizona Republic that he plans to be ready to sell Nomadland-related T-shirts and souvenirs to any of the newly curious tourists who decide to make a pit stop in the small Arizona town near the California border.