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This week on the travel show... I

explore Australia's Northern

Territory, hearing what the future

holds for tourism at one of the

country 's famous attractions. We

find out what it takes to work as a

croc wrangler in a stunning

Australian National park. Also, we

scour the globe to meet people

skilled in a rare art. We discovered

tacos with a twist in Mexico City.

And Ade is back with the latest in

what is trending in trouble. --

travel.

First this week, I've come to

Australia's Northern Territory and

one of the most iconic sites in the

world - a problem. -- all roof.

Uluru. The giant monolith attracts

more than one quarter of a million

visitors each year. For many of

them, climbing to the top is

something of a rite of passage. But

for the Indigenous people of central

Australia, the rock means much more.

As well as being an important place

a tourist, Uluru is a sacred site.

At the moment, tourist are allowed

to go up to the peak but all of that

is about to change. At the end of

2017, the people who manage Uluru in

conjunction with it grew to owners a

decision to ban tourist from

climbing the rock.

The 600 million -year-old rock is at

the heart of Anangu culture. A

belief that touching the red

sandstone is a way of communicating

with the gods and it is the basis of

their creation stories.

It is almost

like the law and it is really

something that is so integral, so

important to Anangu and those very

stories are based in locations

around Uluru.

I was the decision

made in the first place to ban the

client?

A couple of reasons,

primarily because Anangu don't want

to see people climbing its cultural

reasons but also has been a

significant number fatalities on the

climb. They do get very sad whenever

anyone get injured or dies and there

have been more than 35 people that

have died.

The ban will not come

into force until October 2019 and

until then tourists can continue to

climb on days when the weather isn't

too extreme. The base of the route

has a number of signs asking

tourists to it respect Anangu wishes

not to climb that many people ignore

these. While the decision has been

welcomed by many in the local area,

but everyone in the Northern

Territory is supportive of the band.

I get the local Indigenous people, I

get without coming from, I think it

is a shame because it is a fantastic

place to visit.

I think it is a good

thing because people go up and they

get hurt and the government spent a

lot of time and energy rescuing

people.

Yes, that is a big issue. I

mean it costs a lot of money to get

to central Australia, as you know,

so if you are diminishing the

experience, I think it has the

impact somewhere.

So while the

closure of the climb have a negative

impact on tourist numbers visiting

Uluru?

Left foot in the stir up

here.

3AW led overnight and gently.

To keep it that is coming local

tourism bosses are working hard to

show there are other ways to

experience the rock. Here we go.

Wholly moly.

Uluru camel tours takes

people out into the desert comic it

gives them a great Camel X variant,

it allows people to connect to

nature and the outback and what

better way to do it, on the back of

a camel. Don't try to tempt your

body up. Our environmentally

friendly, they browse on the

vegetation here, they have flat feet

so they do not chop off the ground,

they are a low impact and will, and

they can go months without water so

they don't need a local water

source.

Unbelievable. You never get

sick of that. The views from the

vantage point are pretty

breathtaking. For Chris, the

decision to ban the climb is

welcome.

Look, I think it has been

long overdue and it has been

something which has been talked

about for many years. For myself,

will it affect tourism? I think so.

I think it will give people a better

understanding about the Anangu

stories out here and also the

culture.

As well as establishing

activities like camel rides and

cycling tours, new attractions are

being introduced to encourage

tourist is to keep coming. And most

popular of them all comes to life at

sunset. Bruce Munro's field of light

installation is designed to embody

the energy, heat and brightness of

the desert landscape. What a way to

finish my trip here at Anangu.

50,000 lightbulbs here, glowing and

it all looks like iridescence and

sort of water. The work was

originally installed in 2016 and was

supposed to stay in place for a

year. But due to the huge popularity

of the piece, it will now be here

until the end of 2020. A clear sign

that Uluru remains confident if you

continue to attract tourists long

after the ban comes into force in

October 2000 19.

Now, while many people get their

travel inspiration these days

online, some of us still prefer to

gaze at a map or a globe to pick our

next destination is we headed to

London to meet some of the last

people working in the intricate art

of handcrafted globe making.

There

is something about loans that is

sort of inspiring and sometimes

looking at them, when I'm

practising, I wonder what it is like

in a specific part of the world.

They are quite special.

I am still learning how to make

them. I was surprised by the

complexity. You don't quite realise

how difficult it truly is.

Every

single piece of the globe is on

show. So every single bit has to be

finished perfectly. You need to have

the level of persistence, patience.

It takes a lot of concentration. You

failed so badly when you first have

a go.

At one stage, I was probably over

£100,000 into the project and I

still haven't worked out how to make

a globe and I just had to crack on

with it and understand that if I did

it enough times, potentially, it

might work and thankfully, it did.

The difficult part of its

fundamentally to me, he took a long

time to work out is how to stretch a

flat piece of paper onto a sphere

and to do it without tearing the

paper, ripping the paper, making it

obvious it has been done. And that

is really difficult.

Slowly I started to learn how to be

patient with myself and

understanding the process. I have

definitely become more of a

perfectionist, purely because of the

standard that is required. I think

everyone is fascinated by globe from

an early age. It is the answer to so

many questions, it is something you

can interact with all the time. When

I see one I have at home, I

literally look at it every single

time I go into the house and I spent

every single time, without fail.

I

think the perfect globe is something

with character, something with

meaning, people can add little

things, little illustrations or

highlighted areas of places that

mean a lot to them. Definitely makes

people understand where they fit in

in the world, when you first see a

globe and you first get pointed out

a little speck of land surrounded by

ocean, it makes you, it puts

thousands of questions in your head

and it often makes you think you

should be really careful about how

you use the planet and things like

that. A globe allows you to

understand.

To Mexico City next,

where you will find amazing street

food pretty much everywhere. A

global gourmet has been to meet one

man whose culinary creation has been

causing a thing of a stir.

Still to come on the travel show...

We need the filmmaker who turns

mountains into miniature is in

trending travel. And what does it

take to work as a crocodile wrangler

in one of Australia's most stunning

national parks? Stick with us for

the. The travel show. Your essential

guide wherever you are headed. It is

time for trending travel. Your

monthly mash up of the buried best

travel related stories, pics and

clips online. Founded in 2015, the

website lists holiday accommodation

for travellers with accessibility

requirements. Each listing includes

photos and in-depth information on

adaptations. The company has been

taken over by Airbnb. They say they

plan to accommodate the list of

services into their own platform

later this year.

I believe other

companies will take notice of this

and try to help the disabled

community more on the basis that

this is a genuine market opportunity

that should be taken seriously.

Many

of us love to see some exotic

animals when we travel. Bidding too

Close can have Camel harmful

consequences. A charity has launched

a wildlife at selfie code with the

aim of discouraging tourists from

posting with wild animals. They say

many of the animals are kept in

inhumane conditions. Instagram have

followed suit, advising its users

against sharing these kind of

images.

If you can hold or have a

selfie taken with a wild animal the

chances are that that wild animal

will have experienced terrible

cruelty at some point in its life.

Say no to that. There are ways you

can have a fantastic wildlife

experience and finding a good

responsible tour operator is a great

start.

Check out the world animal

protection website for more

information. And people from around

the world have shared a party on

board are plummeting aircraft. Two

winners from every continent, a

total of 16 in total, will travel to

Germany to board a plane that

simulates weightlessness. Their

mission is to bust some moves in a

zero gravity nightclub. Boasting

three headline DJ 's third party is

expected to last for 90 minutes.

Thank you to everyone who sent a

stern pictures from their travels

are using the hash tag travel

Tuesday. Here is what caught my eye.

Elisabeth shed this night-time

glimpse of Dubai. This picture of

the sky in India. Don't forget to

check out our Twitter and Facebook

pages for loads of extra special

travel show content that you will

not see any where else. Here are the

travel videos we have been watching

this month. YouTube channel Little

big world turns epic views and

towering cityscapes into miniature.

All through trick photography. We

spoke to the creator to find out how

it is done.

A tilted effect that

creates a shallow depth of field

which tricks the eye into believing

this is micro photography, making it

look like a miniature. There are a

few other things you may want to do

to sell the effect, shooting from a

high angle with a wide angle lens. I

believe that the world would be a

better place if people did not take

themselves so seriously. We are tiny

bugs and if only a few people

understand this message, my work is

done. You can check out his channel

for more videos viewable in glorious

4K.

And if you see anything you think we

should know about, please do get in

touch. You can find us on Twitter.

Finally this week, how would you

like to be in charge of a park

encompassing over 2000 types of

plant and an incredible 10,000

crocodiles? For many, it is a dream

job. And when Kakadu National Park

put out a job adverts renewed park

manager, it caused the global stir.

So what does it take to run a park

of this size? We caught up with the

current park manager on one of his

last days on the job.

Every day is different and that is

what makes the job interesting.

Tourism is a big part of it so

working to make sure that tourist

sites are as good as they could be.

There is a lot of interaction with

wildlife. Two weeks ago one of the

ranges called me up and said they

had caught a crocodile. And they

told me I needed to sexy. I asked

what that was involved and I had to

stick a finger into a slit on its

underside and determine its vendor.

-- gender. We put a quirky job ad

out there which was looking for a

CEO of part-time croc wrangler. It

has had a huge amount of interest

from around the world. It went viral

and we had people from Europe and

America are interested. It is one of

those jobs... You see a job ads

sometimes and it says unique

opportunity, an empty cliche. This

one is certainly unique. There is no

job like it in the world. Primarily

this is Aboriginal land so the

traditional owners of the land have

leased it back to us, the Federal

government, and jointly with them we

manage the national park. The size

of the park is an enormous. 20,000

square kilometres. In context, that

is about the size of Wales or half

the size of Switzerland. A workforce

of about 75 people and they are

extremely busy maintaining the park.

We have a large influx of visitors

in the dry season, in the middle of

the year, May through October, and

our rangers are doing biodiversity

work, conservation work, operational

staff and making sure that our

visitors are safe and having a great

time. One third of all Australian

bird species live within Kakadu. We

have 60 different kinds of mammals.

Really diverse landscapes as well.

Stone country, 1.5 billion -year-old

rocks, some of the oldest in the

world. On a rock is 20,000 -year-old

rock art. We are living amongst a

65,000 -year-old culture, the oldest

in the world. Imagine yourself in

that, it is amazing. For me, the big

challenge going forward is tourism

and growing tourist numbers because

there is a uranium mine leased

within the park and that mine is

closing down at the end of 2020.

That provide a large amount of

income and sustains the town of

Jabiru. Finding a sustainable

alternative source of revenue for

the town to keep people employed in

services open is important so we are

working closely with traditional

owners and the Northern Territory

government to look at how tourism

can replace mining as a source of

revenue and sustained the park. I

would say the biggest challenge is

ensuring that tourism grows in the

future but continuing to work with

traditional owners as well, making

sure that there needs are met and

aspirations are realised as well.

Applications are now closed for the

next lucky Kakadu croc wrangler. As

workplaces are, it is not more

stunning than this.

I am afraid that is all we have time

for this week. Coming up next week,

Joe heads to Israel to find out how

these huge sinkholes have become the

latest attraction for travellers to

the dead Sea.

It is a lot to take in

because it is devastation but also

quite beautiful.

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