The Travel Show
Season 2021
The BBC news presents that intrduce interest unique spots and experiences in beautiful pictures.
Where to Watch The Travel Show • Season 2021
44 Episodes
- Everest and the Pandemic
E1Everest and the PandemicMike Corey is in Turkey trying some unusual traditional therapies, Rajan Datar looks ahead to the year in travel and we visit Mount Everest, where there have been reports of litter and overcrowding in recent years, to find out whether lockdown might have had some unintended benefits. - Ski resorts in crisis
E3Ski resorts in crisisRajan Datar finds out how Alpine ski resorts are dealing with a winter season of closures and lockdowns, and visits the Italian hilltop village that's fighting for its future. Elsewhere, we meet the family who for the past 70 years have chronicled an ever-changing Spain from the air, and find out how Dubai’s acrobat population are keeping the curtain up during the pandemic. - Best bits: Our coldest adventures
E4Best bits: Our coldest adventuresWe relive some of The Travel Show's top winter adventures, including Ade Adepitan's overnight stay at Sweden's famous Ice Hotel, a sub-zero motorcycle trip across Siberia and Christa Larwood's teeth-chattering ride down a bobsleigh course in Latvia. - Dubai's Postponed Expo 2020
E5Dubai's Postponed Expo 2020Lucy Hedges looks at Dubai's efforts to reschedule its mammoth 2020 World Expo, which was postponed during the pandemic. The team also catches up with Cuba's enigmatic shoeshine poet, checks out the typewriter tycoon whose fortunes changed one part of northern Italy and meets the South Korean robot that can peer into the future. - Tanzania's Pristine Coral Reefs
E7Tanzania's Pristine Coral ReefsRajan Datar asks what is next for cruising, as the industry starts to think about allowing passengers onboard once again. Mike Corey is off the coast of Tanzania exploring a coral reef that scientists say could be a game-changer for some species threatened by warming seas. We remember our 2020 trip to northern Italy’s dramatic and brutal Battle of the Oranges, which happened just days before the pandemic arrived in the region. - The Surfers of Fukushima
E9The Surfers of FukushimaThe Travel Show visits Fukushima in north eastern Japan, meeting the surfers hoping to revive the region's fortunes ten years on from the devastating nuclear disaster. The team go on the hunt for a priceless Russian royal work of art that mysteriously went missing during the closing days of World War Two and find out how Sake, a traditional Japanese rice wine, is undergoing a makeover. - Best of Thailand
E10Best of ThailandChrista Larwood looks back at some of The Travel Show's favourite adventures in Thailand. Henry Golding tries out the country's national sport in Bangkok, Mike Corey visits an eco-tourism project where travellers are hoping to give something back, and Carmen Roberts gets a helping hand from technology as she joins a mission to clean up the country's coastline. - Jobs, Jabs and Travel
E11Jobs, Jabs and TravelThe Travel Show meets the tourism professionals facing an uncertain future more than a year into the global pandemic. The family who've spent 70 years photographing Spain from the air show us their archives, and Mike Corey is in Zanzibar to see the landmark Omani Palace that tragically collapsed in December. - Travelling Sustainably
E13Travelling SustainablyAs travel resets after a year of restrictions, we’ll be exploring the future of sustainable tourism. We’re in the wildlife capital of New Zealand meeting the vets taking care of injured wildlife and we’ll bring you a round-up of the best of online travel in our virtual global guide. - Outdoor favourites
E14Outdoor favouritesThe team revisits some of its favourite adventures in the great outdoors, including the time Ade Adepitan went walking with lion cubs in Zambia and Mike Corey's trip to the Great Barrier Reef, where he saw some of the advanced science being used to try to save the barrier from warming seas. - Whale Watching in the Arctic
E15Whale Watching in the ArcticOn this week’s Travel Show Ade Adepitan investigates the way that the travel industry operates financially and asks if we are all paying too high a price for convenience when booking. There’s our regular lockdown guide to attractions and events happening around the world virtually, and we head to Norway in search of killer whales. - The Best of Japan
E18The Best of JapanThis edition of The Travel Show comes from Tokyo, where Carmen Roberts looks back at some of her favourite recent stories from Japan, including the time she joined a group of young people training to become ninjas and a trip to the country's most northerly island to take part in an enormous music and dance festival. - The Best Bits: Musical Adventures
E24The Best Bits: Musical AdventuresLucy Hedges presents a look back at some of The Travel Show’s most tuneful musical adventures, from Rajan’s performance at New Orleans’ French Quarter Festival to Christa’s underwater concert in Denmark and an unusual bell-ringing procession in Germany’s Bavarian Forest. - Tumbling Through the Pandemic
E30Tumbling Through the PandemicMike Corey visits the Kenyan acrobats who are still on their feet, despite more than a year of cancelled bookings. The team is in Paris to look at how the French capital is preparing for a car-free future and in the US state of Georgia touring a vast former psychiatric hospital that has become a magnet for urban explorers. - Ghost Towns
E31Ghost TownsMike Corey visits the lakeside town of Epecuen, a former Argentine tourist resort which has lain submerged beneath a lake for 30 years and is now in the process of re-emerging. The team meets the Maori custodians for one of New Zealand’s most isolated rainforests, and adventurer Jason Lewis and his wife Tammie set off on their attempt to circumnavigate Wales using only human power – on foot, bike, kayak and pedal boat. - Auf Wiedersehen, Tegel Airport
E32Auf Wiedersehen, Tegel AirportRajan Datar visits Berlin’s Tegel Airport as the city says goodbye to the distinctive and divisive hexagonal terminals. The team heads for the Spanish village aiming to get its tradition of outdoor chatting recognised by Unesco. And adventurer Jason Lewis and his wife Tammie on the second leg of their attempt to circumnavigate Wales by human power alone. - 02/10/2021
E3302/10/2021As the Republic of Ireland emerges from Covid-19 restrictions, Rajan Datar travels to the country to discover how it is both preserving its tourism heritage and adapting the industry for the future. Driving the Travel Show's electric van, his journey takes him from the capital city of Dublin down to the country's most south westerly point in the fifth part of our series on tourism's Road to Recovery. - Paris: A Retail Renaissance
E36Paris: A Retail RenaissanceEmeline Nsingi Nkosi is in Paris to see the revival and reopening of La Samaritaine - an historic, art nouveau shopping centre. The team's with the Chicago school children learning about a local stretch of the underground railroad, an old network of safe-havens that ran through the United States. Plus Ade Adepitan visits one of the best stargazing spots in Scotland. - The Coldest Cowboys
E37The Coldest Cowboyshrista Larwood's in Iceland taking part in the massive annual island-wide horse round-up; the team's at Canterbury Cathedral as some of the oldest stained glass in the world is carefully restored, and with one adventurer as he sets off on an incredible roadtrip across the frozen surface of a vast and ancient Siberian lake. - Adopt a Husky
E41Adopt a HuskyThe Travel Show is in Finland to see how the pandemic has affected huskies responsible for pulling tourist sledges across the arctic landscape. The team is also in Scotland foraging for their dinner; and in Sardinia, finding out why people there might hold the secret to long life and good health. - Australia Reunites
E42Australia ReunitesChrista Larwood embarks on an emotional journey back home to Australia after being separated from family during Covid-19. We reveal the history of one of Berlin's most famous street foods and we visit Thailand where the Lopburi Monkey Festival helps bring tourists back to the region.
