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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ted Thornhill

Marty Supreme movie drives huge surge in table tennis tourism

Marty Supreme has been a huge success grossing over $147 million since its opening - and now its spurring a new tourism interest.

The New York City-set movie, which sees Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) use his ping-pong skills to hustle for money, is now showing up in how people travel. Google searches for “table tennis championships” and “table tennis games near me” are up 5,000 percent in the past month, according to travel booking platform Bokun. And searches for “Space Ping Pong NYC,” a table tennis bar resembling one of the movie sets, have surged by 2,600 percent.

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