The Travel Show

  • Premiered: Feb 2014
  • Episodes: 499
  • Followers: 1
  • Running
  • BBC Two
  • Friday
  • Documentary Travel

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Season 2020
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Astroland
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Jan 10, 2020
Lucy Hedges is experiencing what it might like to be a Mars colonist at Spain's Astroland. We have our trending guide for the upcoming Chinese New Year and Cat Moh takes an icy dip in glacial meltwater between two tectonic plates.
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Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp
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Jan 17, 2020
This week Mike's in the USA, finding out about a project to re-wet Virginia's enticingly named Great Dismal Swamp. He then heads to Sarasota, Florida which has become a popular holiday .. show full overview
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Pintxos for Pennies
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Jan 24, 2020
Lucy Hedges is in Spain's culinary capital, San Sebastian, to see how tourists are being overcharged for the local dish. We meet the man who's using travel to fight his depression. Plus .. show full overview
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Volcano Tourism
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Feb 01, 2020
The Travel Show looks at some of the thrills and perils of living by - and visiting - one of the world's most active volcanoes, Sicily's Mount Etna. The Global Guru returns with advice .. show full overview
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The Maldives
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Feb 07, 2020
On this week's Travel Show Ade Adepitan heads to the Maldives to meet the people who are working to save its unique marine environment.
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Rickshaws and Reptiles
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Feb 14, 2020
Lucy Hedges is in Sri Lanka, where electric tuk-tuks are taking to the road as part of measures to tackle air pollution. She also meets the snakes of the Sinharaja, the rainforest park .. show full overview
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Japan and Brazil
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Feb 21, 2020
This week, Carmen Roberts is at Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival to see how it's coping with an unusually snow-free winter; Lucy Hedges is back with a round-up of all the gadgets that'll .. show full overview
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Argentina: The Beasts of Ibera
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Feb 28, 2020
Mike Corey visits the Ibera Wetlands in Argentina, where jaguars are set to be released back into the wild. He also risks alligator-infested waters on an extraordinary gaucho tour. .. show full overview
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Jerusalem's Underground History
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Mar 06, 2020
This week, Rajan Datar explores the hidden treasure underneath the streets of Jerusalem. He walks on recently excavated 2,000 year old roads and discovers old church chambers from the .. show full overview
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Ade Adepitan Reviews Some Of His Favourites
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Mar 13, 2020
Join Ade Adepitan in the Maldives as he looks back on some of his favourite recent Travel Show stories.
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Tourism and the Impact of Coronavirus
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Mar 21, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on travel. In this week's Travel Show, Rajan Datar is joined by global guru Simon Calder to take a look at the impact of cancelled flights and lockdowns around the world.
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Coronavirus: After the Lockdown
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Apr 10, 2020
As the world becomes used to closed borders and cities in lockdown, the Travel Show team investigate what this new reality means for the future of tourism and asks if the current crisis could change the way that we think about travel.
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The World in Lockdown
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May 02, 2020
As holidays are cancelled or postponed and much of the travel industry still struggles to cope with the impact of the coronavirus crisis join the Travel Show team for a special programme .. show full overview
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The Future of Flying
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May 22, 2020
Rajan Datar finds out what it will be like to get on a plane after the world finally emerges from lockdown, how New York’s famous yellow cabs are dealing with the new normal and why .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: Eco-adventures
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Jun 06, 2020
The Travel Show revisits some of its best eco-trips from the last few years, including seeing California from the very top of the world's tallest trees. Plus meet the people saving .. show full overview
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Tourism and Social Distancing
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Jun 13, 2020
The Travel Show visits Margate in Kent, a seaside town attempting to adopt social distancing measures in the hope it will be able to welcome tourists back this summer. Lucy Hedges tries .. show full overview
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Dubai Adventures and EXPO Update
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Jun 19, 2020
Ade Adepitan looks back at his recent adventures in Dubai plus gets an update on how the Emirate is easing lockdown and plans for the postponed Expo 2020.
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Wildest Adventures
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Jun 26, 2020
The Travel Show revisits some of its wildest adventures from the last few years. The team go moose tracking in Canada, take part in the re-enactment of a dramatic battle from the Arab .. show full overview
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Spanish Tourism Reopens
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Jul 03, 2020
As Spain re-opens to tourists, the Travel Show joins a pilot project that's testing new social distancing measures across the island of Mallorca.
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Norway Musical Odyssey
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Jul 10, 2020
This week's Travel Show is a special edition from Norway as we take a musical journey from Oslo to Bergen along one of the world's must stunning rail lines, the Bergensbanen.
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The Best Bits: Extrordinary Food
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Jul 17, 2020
The Travel Show's favourite food trips from the past few years. Join Christa Larwood for a smorgasbord of delights, from Michelin star street food to the Pizza World Championships and the world's biggest underwater restaurant.
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Coronavirus Refunds
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Jul 24, 2020
Simon Calder finds out why some airlines have taken months to refund passengers who cancelled their trips during lockdown. Ade Adepitan is in Venice to see how the city will reopen .. show full overview
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Favourite Characters Compilation
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Aug 01, 2020
Christa Larwood looks back at some of the most inspirational characters that the team have met on their travels, including the Thai woman who started the world’s first elephant hospital, .. show full overview
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Hiroshima at 75
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Aug 07, 2020
The Travel Show is in Japan, as ceremonies take place to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What effect will coronavirus restrictions have on .. show full overview
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Scotland Castles in Lockdown
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Sep 04, 2020
Canadian Mike Corey rediscovers his Scottish roots by heading to the Isle of Skye to see the negative impact that the downturn in tourism is having on Scotland’s historic buildings.
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Exploring Turkey
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Sep 11, 2020
This week the Travel Show looks back at some of their adventures in Turkey, from the time Henry Golding visited the barbershops and bazaars of Istanbul to Mike Corey exploring a dive site with a difference off the coast of Kusadasi.
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Restoring Brazil's National Museum
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Sep 19, 2020
The Travel Show is at London Zoo, which has reopened with the help of volunteers recruited from the city's furloughed workforce. Mike Corey visits Brazil's National Museum, two years .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: Animal Encounters
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Sep 25, 2020
The Travel Show looks back at some of its most memorable animal encounters from the last decade, including the Beluga Whales that got a second chance, the dog exploring the United States .. show full overview
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Oktoberfest: Pints In a Pandemic
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Oct 03, 2020
Christa Larwood travels to Munich to see some of the different ways German drinkers have been marking 2020's cancelled Oktoberfest beer festival. The team is in Harlem to meet the .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: Exploring the UK
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Oct 09, 2020
The Travel Show revisits some of its favourite moments from the four corners of the UK, including Ade Adepitan's tour of vegan London, a trip to dig snowholes in Scotland's Cairngorms, and a real-life Game of Thrones experience in Northern Ireland.
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Romes 150th Anniversary
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Oct 16, 2020
Rajan Datar drops in on Rome as it prepares to mark 150 years since becoming Italy's capital city. We're back with our series revealing Untold America, Christa Larwood is on the hunt for .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: Africa
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Oct 23, 2020
The Travel Show team takes a look back at some of its most memorable trips to Africa, including the time Ben Zand took part in one of Sudan's popular Friday wrestling contests, when Ade .. show full overview
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Holidays at Home
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Oct 30, 2020
The team heads for Devon to see how British holiday parks are coping with new coronavirus restrictions, Christa is in Berlin to find out why wild boars have been running rampant across .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: Arts and Culture
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Nov 06, 2020
Christa Larwood is in London looking back at some of the most memorable arts and culture moments featured on the programme over the years, including when Ade Adepitan tried improvised .. show full overview
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How to Book a Holiday
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Nov 13, 2020
The team looks at whether we can book holidays with any confidence when coronavirus restrictions begin to lift, Alana Yzola is in Las Vegas finding out how more engaged couples are .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: Sporting Adventures
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Nov 20, 2020
Lucy Hedges rounds up some of the Travel Show's best sporting adventures from recent years, from sandboarding in Kazakhstan, to wrestling in the Gobi Desert, to a freezing cold dip in Scottish seas.
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Koalas in Crisis
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Nov 27, 2020
Ade Adepitan looks at some of the innovations that may get us travelling again in the near future. The team's on Australia's Kangaroo Island, twelve months on from the catastrophic .. show full overview
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The Best Bits: North America
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Dec 04, 2020
The team revisits some favourite North American trips from recent years. Mike Corey is in Hollywood for a behind-the-scenes look at the new, yet-to-open Academy Museum of Motion .. show full overview
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Trouble in Pantoland
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Dec 12, 2020
Christa Larwood finds out how trips to see Santa are changing as we prepare to celebrate Christmas in a pandemic. The show heads to Mount Everest, now closed to climbers, to find out how .. show full overview
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Socially Distanced Santa
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Dec 18, 2020
Christa Larwood finds out how trips to see Santa are changing as we prepare to celebrate Christmas in a pandemic. We head to Mount Everest, now closed to climbers, to find out how its .. show full overview
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Exploring Kazakhstan
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Dec 19, 2020
In a special programme from Kazakhstan, Mike Corey explores the significant role of nature on the people of Kazakhstan and the travellers who visit there.
2020x42 Season finale
Review of 2020
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Dec 25, 2020
Ade Adepitan takes a look back at 2020, a year when Covid-19 brought the travel industry to its knees. He looks at some of the inspiring ways travellers coped with lockdown.

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