FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF

TV TRAVEL STARS

To conduct the analysis, we started by analysing the IMDb profiles of nine of TV’s biggest names in travel. Scanning the listed series, we noted down each and every individual location they’d visited using the episode synopses – if someone was listed as a narrator and not a presenter (as is often the case with David Attenborough) we assumed they didn’t travel to the country for that particular episode / series.

Using this data, we then got price data for flights (accurate as of November, 2019) to work out the cost to fly to each location, assuming a London start and end point. For accuracy, we’ve assumed that concurrent episodes within the same series were filmed one after the other, so the host would fly from London to Paris and then onto Tokyo, for example, before flying home. Standalone episodes have been priced at the cost of a round trip.

Note: We were unable to account for domestic travel within a country as this would likely have been arranged privately. For distances of over 100km, we’ve assumed hosts would travel by plane and have priced flights accordingly (this is often the case with interstate travel in America).