Scorching on the heels of Sir David Attenborough’s newest journey documentary, a examine carried out by journey journey firm Discover Worldwide has revealed the beloved presenter’s unbelievable journey historical past.
David Attenborough
Researchers watched hours and hours of Attenborough’s documentaries, courting again to 1955, to file all of the areas he’s seen presenting from. The information has been visualised in an interactive map, permitting individuals to simply perceive and recognize the big journey achievements of one of many biggest documentarists and wildlife advocates of our time
The brand new map even permits customers to enter their very own distinctive listing of locations they’ve travelled to all over the world, to see how their very own journey historical past measures up towards Sir David Attenborough’s.
Attenborough is seen presenting essentially the most from California and the island of Borneo. Attenborough’s most-visited nations are the USA (57 appearances), Australia (37 appearances), and the UK (29 appearances). He has offered from 333 areas throughout his TV profession, in 83 totally different nations.
Born in Could 1926, David Attenborough was 30 years outdated when his first nature documentary Zoo Quest to Guiana aired. Now aged 96, Attenborough has been sharing with viewers at dwelling the planet’s unbelievable animals, flowers, oceans, and pure habitats for over 65 years, changing into an advocate for wildlife conservation and consciousness of the devastating impacts of local weather change.
Journey regrets
With such an astonishing journey profession underneath his belt, it’s onerous to think about whether or not Attenborough has any journey regrets. Nonetheless, in response to a brand new survey from Discover the vast majority of individuals aged 70 or over do have ‘journey regrets’, with 62% saying there’s someplace on the earth they remorse by no means having visited. Some nations talked about embody Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Japan, and Canada.
One in three individuals over 70 stated they remorse by no means seeing the Northern Lights, making it the journey expertise most individuals remorse by no means doing.
Journey regrets of the over 70s
Journey Expertise
% of Over 70s Who Remorse By no means Doing This
Seeing the Northern Lights
39%
Visiting the Maldives
19%
Seeing the Nice Pyramids of Giza
19%
Visiting Machu Picchu
19%
Seeing Niagara Falls
19%
Visiting the Taj Mahal
18%
Strolling the Nice Wall of China
17%
Seeing the Petra ruins in Jordan
13%
An African safari
13%
Driving a Californian street journey
11%
Nonetheless, the identical survey reveals that folks of their mid-life (aged 40-55) expressed a powerful want to see extra of the world. The preferred journey ‘hope’ for mid-lifers is seeing the Northern Lights, adopted by a go to to the Maldives. An enormous 85% of mid-life individuals say they hope to go to a brand new nation within the subsequent ten to twenty years.
Journey Expertise
% of 40-55 Yr Olds Who Hope to Do This
Seeing the Northern Lights
46%
Visiting the Maldives
35%
Mendacity on a seaside within the Mediterranean
33%
Seeing Niagara Falls
30%
Going to Disney Land/Disney World
29%
A Californian street journey
26%
Doing a European cruise
24%
Partying in Las Vegas
23%
An African safari
21%
Nice Pyramids of Giza
20%
Taj Mahal
16%
Gondola Trip in Venice
16%
Strolling the Nice Wall of China
16%
Visiting Machu Picchu
15%
Trekking the Inca Path
9%
Michael Edwards, Managing Director at Discover says ‘Everybody at Discover is in full awe of David Attenborough. His sense of journey and curiosity has impressed many, and together with his closing documentary airing we wished to have a good time his journey achievements. By evaluating your personal journey historical past with Attenborough’s, our interactive map gives an unique solution to encourage individuals to maintain on exploring our unbelievable planet.
‘With our analysis exhibiting that so many individuals over 70 remorse not having visited extra of the world, we hope our new map encourages travellers to maintain on exploring, to maintain on discovering new issues, and to embrace their inner-David Attenborough.’
For the total survey findings and to study extra about David Attenborough’s travels see www.discover.co.uk/how-david-attenborough-are-you
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