''Word Travels'' (tagline ''The Truth Behind the Byline'') is an adventure travel television documentary series. An original Canadian production, the show debuted on
OLN
OLN (formerly Outdoor Life Network) is a Canadian English-language Category A specialty channel. OLN primarily broadcasts factual-based and adventure-related reality programming aimed at male audiences. OLN is wholly owned by Rogers Sports & Me ...
on January 30, 2008Toronto Star, TV Travel /ref> and aires in Canada on OLN and CityTV, and worldwide on Nat Geo Adventure. The show is co-hosted by
Robin Esrock Robin Esrock ( ; born 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa)Julia Dimon
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, produced by Omni Film Limited, and filmed by Sean Cable.
The first season of ''Word Travels'' aired on
OLN
OLN (formerly Outdoor Life Network) is a Canadian English-language Category A specialty channel. OLN primarily broadcasts factual-based and adventure-related reality programming aimed at male audiences. OLN is wholly owned by Rogers Sports & Me ...
in Canada and began airing internationally on the
National Geographic Adventure
Nat Geo People was an international pay television channel owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). Targeted at female audiences, with programming fo ...
channel worldwide in October 2008.Word Travels on OLN /ref> The second season began airing on
OLN
OLN (formerly Outdoor Life Network) is a Canadian English-language Category A specialty channel. OLN primarily broadcasts factual-based and adventure-related reality programming aimed at male audiences. OLN is wholly owned by Rogers Sports & Me ...
on January 18, 2009, and aired on
National Geographic Adventure
Nat Geo People was an international pay television channel owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). Targeted at female audiences, with programming fo ...
in September 2009. Season 3 was filmed between April and October 2009,Omni Film Website /ref> and debuted in Canada on OLN on March 7, 2010. It airs on
Travel Channel (UK)
Travel Channel International (stylized as Trvl Channel in Asia and Australia since 2021) is a commercial television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and broadcasting travel-themed programmes in the EMEA regions and Asia Pacific, spanning ...
in 21 languages around the world. Word Travels is often misspelled as World Travels.Reference to Robin Esrock in World Travels, Forbes Traveller /ref>
Overview
''Word Travels'' follows the lives of two young professional travel writers, South African
Robin Esrock Robin Esrock ( ; born 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa)Word Travels on IMDB /ref> It is the first TV show to reveal the working reality of modern
travel writing
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.
Robin Esrock Robin Esrock ( ; born 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa)The Globe and Mail
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and freelances for newspapers and magazines worldwide. Julia Dimon was a weekly columnist for the Metro International's Canadian edition. Esrock focuses on adventurous and physical stories, while Dimon focuses on cultural and people stories. Each episode has the characters investigating a story.