The UK's largest and longest-running travel event returns for 2024, gathering hundreds of travel experts and brands ready to inspire your next adventure...
The UK's largest and longest-running travel event is returning to Manchester and London for 2024.
Destinations: The Holiday and Travel Show will take place at both Manchester Central from 11-14 January, and Olympia London from 1-4 February.
These iconic city venues will be pulling in crowds of adventure lovers from across the UK and beyond, ready to meet the hundreds of travel brands and tourist boards who will be on-hand to provide in-depth knowledge of their destinations.
As ever, there will also be a fantastic line-up of expert speakers, including travel professionals, authors, photographers and TV presenters, all providing inspiration and practical advice for your global travels in the year ahead.
At the London event, TV personality and author Simon Reeve will be one of many well-known names who will discuss his incredible travel experiences (2 Feb, 1-2pm), while renowned chef Michel Roux will speak about his favourite dishes that have been inspired by his culinary travels around the globe (2 Feb, 2-3pm).
The Wanderlust team will of course be there too, and ticketholders will have the opportunity to meet our team, learn more about our magazine and website, and pick up some top travel tips.
Wherever you dream of going in the world, Destinations can offer inspiration (Shutterstock)
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Across the four-day event in both Manchester and London, visitors will be able to explore the ever-popular Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year gallery, the UK’s leading amateur travel photography competition. To celebrate Wanderlust’s 30th anniversary year, the contest returns with a slight difference in 2024. Wanderlust have curated a gallery of the ‘best of the best’ from the past 10 years, carefully selecting our favourite images of people, landmarks, icons and wildlife captured across the globe. This year’s gallery is kindly supported by Australia's Northern Territory.
At the London event, Wanderlust editors, including editor-in-chief George Kipouros and founding editor Lyn Hughes, will be taking part in four panel sessions on The Travel Stage. One of the main topics up for discussion will be the Wanderlust Travel Hot List – the 24 best destinations to visit in 2024, as selected by our editors. They will be highlighting a few of their favourites places featured on the list, as well as sharing the ones they’re most inspired to visit. The Wanderlust Travel Hot List session will take place on both 1 February at 11.30am and 3 February at 10:45am.
Those who love to travel alone shouldn’t miss the Wanderlust How to Travel Solo panel discussion on Friday 2 February at 11.30am. Our expert panel will take us through why and how you should travel solo, with tips, tricks and inspirational ideas aplenty.
Rounding off Wanderlust’s live sessions on Sunday 4 February at 12.15pm will be a panel discussion on the Future of Travel, a prominent topic featured in the latest issue of Wanderlust. Our editors will be predicting where, when and how we could be travelling in the years to come, as we adapt to new technologies, climates and ideas.
Finally, Wanderlust will have our very own stand at both shows, so make sure to come along and say hello. We look forward to meeting many of our readers – both old and new! There will be an exclusive subscription offer available when you sign up to Wanderlust Travel Magazine at the show, which includes taking home a copy of our brand new Ultimate Travel Quiz Book.
Get up to two complimentary tickets (with only a £1.50 booking fee) to Destinations London and Manchester at destinationsshow.com, using the code WLTMAG at the checkout.
Head to Destinations: The Holiday and Travel Show official website to see the full timetable of events at each venue.
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