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    Tom Robbins

    Travel editor

    Tom Robbins has been the FT's Travel Editor since 2010 and was named Travel Journalist of the Year at the 2019 Press Awards. He was previously travel editor of the Observer, motoring editor of the Sunday Times and is the author of the book White Weekends (Bantam).
    Email Tom Robbins @TRtravels  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
      Travel
      Storification, set-jetting and Sunday-night celebrations: travel trends for 2023 and beyond

      Five-star hotels are taking to the water, futuristic tents are popping up deep the wilderness — and the long weekend is back

    • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
      Travel
      Why Austria has the world’s best ski hotels

      The Forsthofgut in Leogang is a classic example of an Austrian speciality: the small family-owned hotel with big ambitions

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Travel
      Short cuts: Douglas Tompkins’ Patagonia home to open to guests — plus a new hot spring in Iceland

      The home of the late North Face founder is due to welcome visitors next year; Hvammsvík Hot Springs opens beside a fjord just north of Reykjavik

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his must-read titles

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      FT Weekend podcast12 min listen
      Travel mini-series: the FT’s travel editor talks tourism

      In our third bonus episode, Tom Robbins gives an honest account of what’s happening in the industry right now

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Travel
      Shortcuts: cycling across Antarctica and Battersea Power Station’s first hotel

      Italian Omar Di Felice sets out on the ultimate bike-packing expedition; London’s new art’otel prepares to open doors

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Travel
      This winter’s most exciting ski destination: Albania’s Accursed Mountains

      Off limits for decades, the pristine peaks of the Valbona valley are now being explored by a fledgling heli-ski operation

    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
      Travel
      Short cuts: Lufthansa’s luxurious new cabins and a big opening in little St Martin-de-Belleville

      German carrier unveils its new Allegris seats; the village in France’s Trois Vallées ski area gets its first five-star hotel

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      FT MagazinePink Snow 2022: a winter sports special
      First tracks: news from the slopes

      Skiing in the Saudi Arabian desert; the US resorts finally joining forces; the death of the lift pass — and a dream trip with Bode Miller

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      FT MagazinePink Snow 2022: a winter sports special
      Presents for skiers: our pick of this season’s new kit

      From a game-changing snowboard binding to a bargain down jacket and a watch with an avalanche warning

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      FT MagazinePink Snow 2022: a winter sports special
      Deep in the woods, a ski retreat that’s straight from a fairytale

      Kitzbühel is Austria’s most glamorous resort but, hidden in the trees, an old hunting lodge offers a very different family ski trip

    • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
      Travel
      Shortcuts: on holiday with James Bond

      As the spy series celebrates its 60th anniversary, the films’ producers have partnered with a tour operator to launch ‘immersive’ 007-inspired trips

    • Saturday, 27 August, 2022
      Travel
      Short cuts: by seaplane to DC and sailing ferry across the Channel

      Manhattan to Washington seaplane flights take off; a sustainable Dover-Boulogne crossing; and the company offering extra leave for staff who don’t fly

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Travel
      Bhutan’s bold plan to introduce the world’s highest tourist levy

      Himalayan kingdom will finally reopen borders in September — but with a ‘sustainable development fee’ of $200 per person per day

    • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
      Travel
      Jasmine Harrison’s next challenge: swimming Land’s End to John o’ Groats

      A year after rowing the Atlantic alone, the adventurer has set off to swim the length of Britain

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

    • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
      HTSIThe best (seriously) remote retreats
      In the Highlands, a lonely bothy begins a new life

      In an abandoned village at the end of the roadless Ardnish peninsula, a spartan cottage offers shelter, escape from the digital world — and a new model for the bothy movement

    • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
      Travel
      Shortcuts: Cunard’s new liner, a record ski season and the tour operators helping Ukrainian refugees

      Designs for Cunard’s Queen Anne unveiled; Skistar reports record results; the small tour operators taking direct action to help refugees

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      Ernest Shackleton
      Forget Endurance: the real star of Shackleton’s escape rests quietly in suburbia

      For all the drama and heroism of great explorations, the spectre of pointlessness often lurks in the background

    • Friday, 25 February, 2022
      Travel
      Shortcuts: troglodyte luxury on Serifos
    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the world’s most brutally beautiful sporting adventures
      Skiing’s longest run

      A new cable car connection makes it possible to ski across much of the Dolomites in a single day

    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      Travel
      Bucking the trend: travel’s bright hopes for 2022

      The great travel restart may be on hold but there are some parts of the sector that will begin the new year with the wind in their sails

    • Friday, 26 November, 2021
      Best FT Weekend interviews of 2021
      Mountaineer Nirmal Purja: ‘I’m sick of people saying things are impossible’

      The record-breaking adventurer on conquering the world’s 14 highest peaks — and climbing while hungover

    • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
      Best books of 2021: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his must-read titles

    • Saturday, 13 November, 2021
      Travel
      Short cuts: skiers get a quick route to the Dolomites

      After six years with no scheduled flights, Bolzano airport is back with a raft of new routes

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