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Travel smarter and explore further! Explorers, broadcasters and travel journalists provide all the insight and inspiration you need to maximise your next journey.

The Travel Stage features: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival
Afternoon sessions with a lineup of TV personalities and the very best travel writers entertain with their tales from around the world. 

The Travel Stage sponsored by

Travelzoo

Content subject to change. Scroll down to see the 2025 timetable.

30 Jan 2025
  1. View the video finalists for the Wanderlust Visions competition.  The Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year Gallery will be returning in 2025 with a new and refreshed format. Alongside the year’s best t ...
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  3. Travelling with two or three generations of your family this year? Our experts have all the tips and practical advice to make it a doddle, whether it's a big trip or a long weekend.
  4. Breaking Barriers: Hilary Bradt's Life in Travel
    Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt's engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trail-blazer who co-founded Bra ...
  5. Tim Marshall: Geopolitics Today
    All leaders are influenced by geography. Their choices are shaped by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. To follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't ...
  6. Ray Mears: British Woodland
    During his decades long career as a bushcraft and survival expert, one thing always shines through about Ray Mears - his love of the nature and lan dscape within which he finds himself. His latest boo ...
31 Jan 2025
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  2. From an affordable expedition to the Galapagos to exploring the Med solo, Sue Bryant and Laura Jackson explain why there's a cruise for every type of traveller.
  3. Join an interview and Q&A with Just You ambassador, author, and broadcaster Janet Ellis as she shares her transformative journey of solo travel. Discover how Janet fell in love with travel again durin ...
  4. Join our panel of travellers who were all at the first Destinations Show 30 years ago, as they discuss their experiences and how travel has changed over the last 30 years.
  5. Why We Travel
    What are the benefits of travelling, and why do so many of us feel compelled to do it? Ash Bhardwaj, author of Why We Travel, is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, whose work explores the in ...
  6. Petroc Trelawny's Cornwall
    Petroc Trelawny grew up on the Lizard Peninsula in the far south of Cornwall. His new book is part history, part memoir and a deeply felt exploration of Cornwall. Talking to Ann Morgan, he takes us by ...
  7. Louise Minchin in Conversation
    Journalist and broadcaster Louise Minchin has travelled a lot for work, but also while researching her non-fiction title Fearless, which detailed the lives of 17 extraordinary women, in places as dive ...
01 Feb 2025
  1. Get out of your comfort zone as our experts guide you through thoughtful ways to get outdoors, from e-biking in the Alps to wild swimming in Wales  
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  3. How to bag a great bargain on land, sea or air with Travelzoo
  4. Join Nicky Kelvin, The Points Guy Editor-at-Large for his latest tips and advice on how to maximise your travel using points and miles ' all whilst helping you save money. From your supermarket shop t ...
  5. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
    Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, renowned maritime archaeologist David Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there c ...
  6. Allegra McEvidy: A Chef's Journey
    Allegra McEvedy is a chef, writer, broadcaster, consultant and cookery teacher. In her early career she worked at some of London's best restaurants, as well as cheffing in New York and San Francisco. ...
  7. Trevor McDonald's World of Cricket
    Sir Trevor McDonald is one of Britain's most celebrated broadcasters and his devotion for cricket is almost as well-known as his legendary professional achievements. He talks to Simon Lister about his ...
02 Feb 2025
  1. View the video finalists for the Wanderlust Visions competition.  The Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year Gallery will be returning in 2025 with a new and refreshed format. Alongside the year’s best t ...
  2. With the WHO declaring loneliness a 'global public health concern solo travel has become one of travel's fastest growing sectors as travellers are reluctant to miss out on holidays due to waiting for ...
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  3. What happens when you get two train fans on the same stage? Find out when chief travel writer Chris Haslam interviews Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 61. to get the inside track on the year ahead.  
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  5. Writers' Journeys
    Some truly remarkable works of literature have been inspired by writers spending time travelling. From epic road trips and arduous treks into remote territories, to cultural tours and sojourns in the ...
  6. A Cheesemongers Tour de France
    In A Cheesemonger's Tour de France, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country's regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France's oldest and most treasured traditions. H ...
  7. Jay Rayner in Conversation
    For twenty-five years, award-winning restaurant critic Jay Rayner has been uncovering the very best of the nation's eateries, from high end restaurants to high street grills. In his new book, Nights O ...
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