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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).
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  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Travel
    Short cuts: holidays based on children’s classics and a terrifying ‘sky ladder’ in Utah

    Black Tomato launches ‘Take me on a Story’ trips, plus Aman’s new adventure in the Utah desert

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    Travel
    Just outside London, a time-capsule tower you can rent for the weekend

    Opening next week after a major renovation, the 200-year-old tower was once a key part of Britain’s defences

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Travel
    The high life at home: British Airways launches recipe box service

    The airline is to deliver food from its first-class cabins to grounded travellers

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Oscars 2021: meet the nominees
    Husavik: the tiny Icelandic town dreaming of Oscars glory

    Hit hard by the pandemic, the remote fishing town hopes a spoof musical and an Academy Award nomination could spur a rapid recovery

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Travel
    Snow place like home: skiing in England

    The conditions are fickle and the lifts short but that doesn't deter England’s plucky powder hunters 

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Travel
    Short cuts: French ski season on a knife edge

    Resorts warn continued closure risks lasting damage to mountain communities

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    Travel
    How we’ll travel in 2021

    The FT travel editor looks at the key trends for the year to come

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Travel
    The €1m-a-week ski holiday in the Russian far east

    Make first descents on remote volcanic islands then return by helicopter to Oleg Tinkov’s just-launched superyacht

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Travel
    Shortcuts — updates from Mallorca, Edinburgh and Rome

    The Thinking Traveller expands portfolio, Gleneagles Townhouse to launch in 2021, Delta offers ‘Covid-free’ flights

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  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Travel
    Christmas gifts for travellers

    The FT’s travel editor picks presents for frequent flyers, outdoor adventurers and those voyaging vicariously

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    ObituaryJan Morris
    Jan Morris, travel writer hailed as the Flaubert of the Jet Age, 1926-2020

    Reporter who broke the story of Everest’s conquest and became a transgender pioneer

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Travel

    Tom Robbins selects his must-read titles

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Global adventures to quicken the pulse and stir the soul
    Turkey’s magic mountains: heli-skiing’s new frontier

    Unpeopled slopes, pristine snow and powder bowls for days. Why insiders are heading to Ayder for a heli-ski adventure in completely the wrong direction

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Travel
    Will we be able to go skiing this winter?

    Early snowfall in the Alps and Rockies has created a buzz but the outlook remains uncertain

  • Saturday, 26 September, 2020
    Travel
    Is the party over for the chalet holiday?

    Sixty years after it was invented by the British, the chalet ski holiday is under threat from a toxic combination of Covid and Brexit

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Global adventures to quicken the pulse and stir the soul
    Small kids and steep rock: an extreme family holiday in Switzerland

    One of the world’s leading technical climbers, Leo Houlding is also pushing back the boundaries of family travel

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Travel
    Rise of the propeller set

    As airliners are mothballed, a start-up offering cheap flights in tiny aircraft is enjoying unprecedented demand

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    Travel
    Shortcuts: surge in solo and off-grid holidays, while ski companies suffer

    Travel briefs from France and the UK

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Travel
    Shortcuts: House of Hackney’s move into hospitality, private cruise ships and the launch of the ‘hotel office’

    Travel updates from Cornwall, Paris and Scotland

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    Travel
    Shortcuts — updates from Iceland and Cyprus

    A screaming tourism promotion and a venerable cruise line is relaunched

  • Friday, 17 July, 2020
    UK holidays
    The staycation safari

    Not leaving the country doesn’t have to mean limiting your holiday horizons. Tom Robbins heads for a wild short break in the Kent savannah

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Travel
    High-tech housekeeping

    Hotels strive to find new ways to guarantee bedrooms are Covid-free

  • Saturday, 4 July, 2020
    FT SeriesA very different summer
    The search for the perfect remote cottage this summer

    As many prepare for the year of staycations, Tom Robbins on how the most isolated spots will be in great demand

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    Menswear
    From shabby to ‘shacket’: what happened when I tried personal shopping

    John Lewis is one of several department stores to offer online wardrobe advice during Covid-19

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: Travel

    Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

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