Adventure Show
The Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel & Sports Show
This was a pretty big exhibition, taking up 3 floors. We managed to cover about 2.5 yesterday. Now I have to read through several bags of material about adventures in Antarctica, Nepal, Tibet, Africa, etc.
Stands
The few stands which stood out in my mind were:
- The Expedition Company - enthusiastic stand, happy to talk to us, explained that we just have to think of an idea and they'd organize it. eg. llama trekking from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego.
- VSO - Volunteer work which needs skilled professionals.
- Dolma - Ecotourism. Can't remember much about it at the moment, but marked it as one to investigate further.
Talks
The travel photography talk was sadly disappointing. If you knew even a little about photography, then you would have learnt nothing new.
One speaker's photos were particularly uninspiring - luckily he zipped through them at 1 slide/second. Maybe he knew... Thankfully, more skilled photographers had their work on display at the Travel Photography Gallery.
I managed to catch the end of the Reindeer Trekking talk. Lena Conlan gave the captivating slide show presentation. Now I want to go reindeer kissing.
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They do look rather kissable.
When I was growing up in a small town in Iowa we had monthly visits in our Memorial Audtiorium from speakers and their photographs (slides). They would give a talk about the trip and show wonderful pictures of all of these wonderful countries and places they had been. I think they called them Travelogs. It was wonderful and the photographs were wonderful. I wanted to do that when I grew up, but, alas, travel became cheaper and people went to these places themselves, and Travelogs went by the wayside. Technology surpassed what they had to offer.
I believe that travelogues have migrated to the internet. eg. http://www.snowdune.net/