Rajan Datar

The Travel Show presenter, BBC World News

Rajan is one of global TV’s most recognised and experienced faces. Rajan has been a travel presenter for the BBC since 1990 when he began co-presenting the ground-breaking BBC TV ‘Rough Guides’ which escaped traditional travel TV territory and became the first programme to embrace the independent traveller and experience the world from their perspective. Despite reporting from more than 90 countries Rajan says "I still feel like I haven’t even began to scratch the surface yet. Travel for me isn’t about reducing cultures to their lowest common denominator, or stereo-typical view – it’s about embracing the experience and savouring the “otherness” – then you really get to the heart of a place and the people who live there.”