Season 2021 2021

Mike 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.

The Travel Show looks back at some of its best moments from south east Asia. The team jump on a unique bamboo train, visit one of the world's most remote food festivals and meet two orangutans rescued from captivity.

Rajan 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.

We 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.

Lucy 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.

Lucy Hedges takes a look back at some of the show's best journeys to South Asia, including when Henry Golding tried to collect coconuts in Kerala and when Lucy took on the tuk-tuks in Sri Lanka

Rajan 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.

Ade Adepitan looks back at some of The Travel Show's top European adventures, including Rajan Datar testing a Ferrari-themed rollercoaster in Spain.

The 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.

Christa 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.

The 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.

This week Lucy Hedges takes a look back at some of our favourite South America adventures - from surfing in Chile to coming face to face with some hungry jaguars in Argentina.

As 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.

The 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.

On 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.

Christa Larwood looks back at some of the show's favourite city adventures – from the time Lucy Hedges got a sneak preview of the new Statue of Liberty Museum in the Big Apple to Henry Golding meeting the Singapore street food chef with a Michelin star!

Mike Corey explores Nairobi on two wheels and we meet the man fighting to protect a vital underwater super-plant in Spain.

This 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.

Mike Corey is in Kenya's Maasai Mara Reserve, finding out how an increase in domestic safari tourism there has resulted from the pandemic.

Lucy Hedges looks back at some of the unique places the team have spent the night over the years - like camping out inside a 13th-century church.

In the first of a four-part series, Ade navigates the Scottish Highlands and Islands, where he meets the conservationists restoring Britain's largest national park.

Lucy Hedges takes a look back at our some of our favourite Travel Show shimmies on the dance floor, including an energetic South African pantsula.

Ade drives an all-electric update of a traditional Morris van from the seaside of Scarborough into the Dales to find out what lies in store for British summer holidays in 2021.

Lucy 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.

Lucy Hedges takes to the wheel of our all-electric van for the next instalment of our UK mini-series, this time in Wales, travelling from city to coast and meeting the locals.

Christa Larwood is in Northern Ireland for the final part of the Road to Recovery series - driving up the coast in a modern electric version of a classic British vehicle.

The Travel Show is in Tokyo, host city of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to find out how its hotels are dealing with the influx of athletes and trainers from all over the world.

Christa Larwood looks back on some favourite Travel Show adventures in New York - a city where it seems everyone has a story to tell.

Rajan Datar boards one of the biggest sailing ships ever built to find out if wind-powered cruises could be a cleaner way to enjoy a holiday at sea.

Mike 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.

Mike 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.

Rajan 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.

As 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.

The Travel Show is in Berlin to find out how the city's world-famous clubbing scene is attempting to bounce-back from lockdown, and Lucy Hedges samples a Welsh restaurant that specialises in insects.

Christa Larwood heads to Iceland to see why recent volcanic eruptions have been attracting tourists by the dozen.

Emeline 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.

hrista 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.

Christa Larwood is in Sardinia to get a front-seat view at the latest event on the international racing calendar, the climate-friendly Extreme-E.

Rajan Datar celebrates the iconic London Eye, Carmen Roberts gets to grips with cooking a British culinary classic on a tropical Japanese island, and we catch-up with the three Lithuanian adventurers.

Lucy is in Dubai where the delayed Expo 2020 is in full swing, plus she attempts a giant inflatable assault course and visits a spectacular indoor rainforest.

The 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.

Christa 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.

Rajan Datar looks back at 2021, perhaps not one of the best years for travel, however

that has not stopped the Travel Show team from getting out on the road and bringing you stories from around the world.

Presenter and former Paralympian Steve Brown explores Japan to find out how accessibility has improved in the wake of the Paralympics in Tokyo.