Today’s top destinations are struggling with the sheer numbers of visitors and the United Nations has called for a total rethink on how the industry operates Interesting show presented by ⁦rajan datar⁩ joined by ⁦Shazia Mirza⁩ and others. 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

The origins of travel for pleasure go back centuries and package holidays in the 1960s made it accessible to many in the West but it’s only the combination of cheap flights and the advent of the internet that has led to truly global tourism on a mass scale.

Whilst the industry now generates huge income for many companies and individuals around the globe, critics point to the cost to both the environment and humankind.

Drawing on listeners’ questions and comments, Rajan Datar examines the way mass tourism has impacted people’s lives, both positively and negatively, and asks if the enforced pause in tourism caused by Covid was utilised as an opportunity for a re-think.

He is joined by Sihle Khumalo, a popular South African travel writer; Shazia Mirza, a renowned British comedienne and writer; Qupanuk Olsen, originally a mining engineer but now Greenland’s leading travel influencer;

Prof. Noel Salazar, anthropologist of tourism from KU Leuven in Belgium; Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros, senior researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council and Dr. Birgit Trauer, tourism consultant and educator from Australia.

With rajan datar shooting for BBC Travel Show coming soon..

We are now well into the second month of changes affecting Focus on Africa, its switch to being primarily a podcast with a repeat radio airing later that same day. So how is it going down with listeners? Host ⁦rajan datar⁩ with ⁦Alice Muthengi⁩ 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Really want to watch this C4 prog. Also rajan datar made this excellent BBC Radio 4 doc on the P-word. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Listening to ⁦rajan datar⁩ presenting ⁦Over To You⁩ The boss of BBC World Service English, ⁦Jon Zilkha⁩ tells us if that will affect the kind of programmes you hear. A farewell to stalwart ⁦Razia Iqbal⁩ who left after 32 years🙏 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

rajan datar wonderful watch this morning, can’t wait for part 2 next week #India

rajan datar Dear Rajan. I really have enjoyed the two recent Travel Shows to India. Amazing and really wish there was more to come. Great educational shows. Thank you #TravelShow #BBCTravel #India

Dave Lloyd rajan datar I agree. Absolute class TV

rajan datar Loved you planted a Tree on the Travel Show.

A self-audit of an organization is important and ⁦Over To You⁩ hosted by ⁦rajan datar⁩ and produced by Howard Shannon does precisely that, with Ed Main How Trending Extreme uncovered AI-generated videos of real-life child murder victims. 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

#TODAY & #FRIDAY @ 2pm on BBC News (World)'s BBC Travel Show rajan datar journeys through #SriLanka, exploring local life and #culture from the western coasts to its northernmost city. More: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰 MFA SriLanka 🇱🇰 British Council Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Promotions SriLankan Airlines

Interesting listen on perception of tourism impacts: clear that ⁦Welsh Government⁩ current strategy needs a complete rethink as current policies are not going to deliver for communities. ⁦Owen Hughes⁩ ⁦Janet Finch-Saunders MS/AS⁩ ⁦UKHospitality Cymru⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Great program by rajan datar, which he had covered how difficult it actually is to travel Europe by train. Most train companies don't even sell tickets for more than 3 months in advance, nor do they publish timetables... bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m…

This is a must-listen for anyone who lives in a tourist heavy area - its about global tourism but its exactly the same story everywhere - incl here in the Lakes, Cornwall, Highlands. “Where do the people who work in the hotel live?” Great prog rajan datar bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

A week of highs and lows summed up in audio. rajan datar presents Pick at 1815 on R4 this evening featuring Helen Lewis Mark Steel carlhonore Kevin Duala 🇬🇧🇨🇲 BBC Radio 4 Alexei Sayle's Strangers On A Train KG Jordan Kenny Gill Kearsley David Rodigan bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…