Country of origin China Running time 30 minutes | No. of episodes 100+ Original release 2003 – present | |
Starring Marc Edwards
Michele Lean Original network CCTV-9
CCTV International
CCTV News | ||
Travelogue is an adventure tourism television series produced by China Central Television. Each episode features a host who travels with a camera crew to a new destination in China or around the globe and experiences the sights, sounds, and culture that the location has to offer.
The show often takes the viewers beyond popular tourist destinations in order to give a more authentic and in depth look at local culture. Presenters often participate in the local and traditional culture wherever they go. They address the viewer directly, acting as tourists-turned-tour guides, but are also filmed interacting with locals and discovering interesting locations in (mostly) unrehearsed sequences.
Destinations
The show has taken viewers to all the best destinations in China, as well as Jamaica, Greece, Malaysia, Singapore, Namibia, Hong Kong and Taiwan
In 2007 Travelogue and their host Marc Edwards filmed a 3-part series in conjunction with National Geographic’s Trends Traveller magazine. Here they travelled by car along the fabled Tea and Horse Trail from Lijiang in Yunnan to Lhasa in Tibet.
Travelogue produced the Being Beijing series and mini-series which aired throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing highlighting the best things to do, see and eat in the city for those attending the event.
Aside from the successful "Being Beijing" series, Travelogue produced a "History Special," which focused on cities around China that had significance on all of the Chinese dynasties. Another series was "Street Special," which focused on the streets of different cities around China and the "Ethnic Odyssey," which focused on the regions of China that were the lands of the various ethnic groups of China.
In 2009 Travelogue produced CCTV News' first-ever travel program in Taiwan where they toured the island for three weeks. The five-part series was the 1st major travel program filmed between the mainland and Taiwan.
After producing a few successful travel series on Qingdao in 2010, Shangri-La and Xinjiang in 2011, Travelogue continued to produce an eight-part series covering the whole of Hainan Island in 2012, with presenters Greta Georges exploring the eastern part of the island, KayLi Lum experiencing rural tourism along the Central route and Tianran He uncovering the wild western route.