A week of highs and lows summed up in audio. @rajandatar presents Pick at 1815 on R4 this evening featuring @helenlewis @mrmarksteel @carlhonore @kevduala @AlexeiOnATrain @KIRSTYGRNT @jordken @GillKearsley @DavidRodigan

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 @rajandatar https://t.co/CEsm69cZA4

Great program by @rajandatar, 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... https://t.co/zu2aNNXs5T

Interesting listen on perception of tourism impacts: clear that ⁦@WelshGovernment⁩ current strategy needs a complete rethink as current policies are not going to deliver for communities. ⁦@business_owen⁩ ⁦@AberconwyMS⁩ ⁦@ukhcymru⁩

#TODAY & #FRIDAY @ 2pm on @BBCWorld's @BBCTravelShow @rajandatar journeys through #SriLanka, exploring local life and #culture from the western coasts to its northernmost city. More: https://t.co/eQSh3lRKlC @SriLankaTweet @MFA_SriLanka @lkBritish @SriLankaPromos @flysrilankan

A self-audit of an organization is important and ⁦@OverToYouBBC⁩ hosted by ⁦@rajandatar⁩ and produced by Howard Shannon does precisely that, with Ed Main How Trending Extreme uncovered AI-generated videos of real-life child murder victims. 🎧

@rajandatar Loved you planted a Tree on the Travel Show.

@carefree1981 @rajandatar I agree. Absolute class TV

@rajandatar 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

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

Listening to ⁦@rajandatar⁩ presenting ⁦@OverToYouBBC⁩ The boss of BBC World Service English, ⁦@JMZLon⁩ tells us if that will affect the kind of programmes you hear. A farewell to stalwart ⁦@raziaiqbal⁩ who left after 32 years🙏

Really want to watch this C4 prog. Also @rajandatar made this excellent @BBCRadio4 doc on the P-word. https://t.co/TToVBxq1KD

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 ⁦@rajandatar⁩ with ⁦@Amuthengi⁩ 🎧

With @rajandatar shooting for @BBCTravelShow coming soon..

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.

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 ⁦@rajandatar⁩ joined by ⁦@shaziamirza1⁩ and others. 🎧