''Travelogue'' is an
adventure tourism
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television program
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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 program often takes 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
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,
Greece
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,
Malaysia
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,
Singapore
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,
Namibia
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,
Hong Kong
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and
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...
.
In 2007, ''Travelogue'' filmed a 3-part edition in conjunction with
National Geographic's Trends Traveller magazine. They travelled by car along the fabled Tea and Horse Trail, from
Lijiang
Lijiang (), also known as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) made of Guchen ...
in
Yunnan
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to
Lhasa
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in
Tibet
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.
''Travelogue'' produced the ''Being Beijing'' miniseries 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" miniseries, ''Travelogue'' produced a "History Special", which focused on cities around China that had significance on all of the Chinese dynasties. Other editions were "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
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' first-ever travel program in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...
where they toured the island for three weeks. The five-part edition was the 1st major travel program filmed between the mainland and Taiwan.
After producing a few successful travel editions on
Qingdao in 2010,
Shangri-La
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, and
Xinjiang
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, In 2011, ''Travelogue'' continued to produce an eight-part edition covering the whole of
Hainan Island
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.
Presenters
*Tianran He
*Eva May
*Megan Zhang
References
External links
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Travel television series
2010s Chinese television series
2003 Chinese television series debuts
China Central Television