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engineering since 1898. Hi, FD weekend listeners. Welcome to episode three of our four-part

mini-series on travel.

Today, I'm really excited to share a conversation that I had with the FTs travel editor,

Tom Robbins.

Tom just knows it all.

He's been reporting on tourism for many, many years.

He's a real expert.

And he's just very honest and clear about what's going on in the industry and how it works.

We talk about the impact that social media has had on where and how we vacation.

We talk about how people now want authenticity over those luxury resorts where you could kind of be anywhere. We talk about why everyone suddenly started going to Iceland and a lot more.

Okay, let's get into it.

This is FT Weekend, the podcast, Special Travel Edition.

I'm Lila Raptopoulos.

Here we go.

Tom, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thanks, Lila. Great to be here.

So you are the FTs travel editor, which makes you kind of our eyes and ears around the tourism industry.

I hate to start with COVID, but it changed our habits so significantly around travel that I want to know, you know, like, as I'm looking at my Instagram feed, that people seem to be everywhere.

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