2008 Adventure Travel Show Looms

A quick heads-up on the show-going front with a reminder that the Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show dates for 2008 are 25-27 January.

Thie show is at the Islington Design Centre and, if previous years are anything to go by, is an ideal way to whet your travel appetite with a combination of adventure travel trade exhibitors and useful information and entertainment courtesy of a programme of seminars and speakers.

Highlights of the main theatre programme include legendary mountaineer Doug Scott who's there on all three days of the show talking about his outstanding climbing career, the notorious epic on the Ogre and alpine-style Himalayan climbing.

Also appearing is Benedict Allen speaking on his various wilderness trekking experiences and Ed Stafford and Luke Collyer who are planning to walk from the source of the Amazon in southern Peru to its mouth in Brazil completely unsupported and living off the jungle.

Other theatres at the show will cover the practicalities of kit choice, healthy travelling, travel photography and more. There's also the opportunity to enroll in travel writing and photography seminars with training agency Travellers Tales.

Adult tickets are £12 on the door but book in advance and you pay £8.

There are full details at the show's website: www.adventureshow.co.uk.