Travel Channel International
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| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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| Owner | Travel Channel International Ltd. |
Travel Channel (UK) is a British satellite television channel, transmitting 24 hours a day in 21 languages across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. It is operated by Travel Channel International Limited (TCI) - an independent company headquartered in London, and unrelated to Scripps Networks Interactive's Travel Channel in the United States.
Overview
The channel mainly airs programming involving travel, such as guides to holiday planning, and traditional documentary programming about destinations, cuisine, culture, nature and shopping, along with other types of travel such as backpacking, culinary tourism, ecotourism and luxury tourism.
Travel Channel was launched in 1994 and it uses 20 satellite feeds to reach over 850 cable, satellite and IPTV platforms in 125 territories. A second sister channel, Travel Channel 2 launched on Sky Digital on 11 February 2008 but closed on 2 March 2009 when the EPG slot was sold to Style Network.
Travel Channel began to offer their high definition channel, Travel Channel HD, throughout Europe on 15 November 2010.