Lista de episodios

Ways of Escape charts the development of the scenic holiday from its origins in the English countryside to the present day, when some tourists find it necessary to travel halfway round the world to find peace and isolation. The film travels to the Gobi desert in Mongolia to observe a group of contemporary tourists savoring the still desolate landscape of Ghengis Khan and the elusive Snow Leopard.

Excursions tells the story of Thomas Cook and revisits Switzerland and Egypt, two early destinations for Cook's Tours. The film follows in the intrepid footsteps of Miss Jemima, a 19th century diarist who went on Cook's first trip to Switzerland - and a contemporary group of tourists traveling down the Nile - for whom Karnak Temple has more associations with James Bond than the history of ancient Egypt.

The story of the transformation of Torremolinos from a small fishing village to a major package holiday resort - told by the Spanish themselves, from bar owners and hotel managers to the Minister who under Franco's dictatorship helped push through this great experiment in modern mass tourism.

Meeting Others charts the rise of the British holiday camp in the guise of the great entrepreneurs Billy Butlin and Fred Pontin - and also the global phenomenon of Club Med, begun as a radical socialist enterprise by Frenchman Gilbert Trigano.

In Welcome to London the tourists take center stage. As they attempt to take in the complex history of one of the world's most famous capital cities, the film probes their rituals and expectations, and asks, are they seeing what is really there?

The Last Resort surveys the history of the theme park - from the opening of Disneyland in 1955, where landscapes, characters and even ideologies created for the cinema were brought to life, to the latest, themed hotel environments of Las Vegas which include reconstructions of some of the great monuments of ancient Egypt. The series closes by asking if there will soon be no longer any need to travel anywhere at all.