Travelogue is an adventure tourismtelevision program 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, Greece, Malaysia, Singapore, Namibia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2007, Travelogue and its host Marc Edwards 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 in Yunnan to Lhasa in Tibet. 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' first-ever travel program in Taiwan 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, and Xinjiang, In 2011, Travelogue continued to produce an eight-part edition covering the whole of Hainan Island. with presenters Greta Georges exploring the eastern part of the island, experiencing rural tourism along the Central route and uncovering the wild western route.
