This week’s broadcast of Eye on Travel is from Hong Kong. I have all the travel updates, ranging from the latest in the trade and tariff wars, the “gift” of the 747 to President Trump, airfare wars, and… has tipping gotten out of hand? Then, Pauline Frommer, Editorial Director at Frommer’s, reports on the destination hot spots for 2025. Eliza Reid, former First Lady of Iceland and author of Death on the Island, joins the program to chat about her new book and the role its setting on one of Iceland’s small islands plays in the story. A Hong Kong cuisine check-in with Francesco Greco, Executive Chef of the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong. A visit to the outlying fishing village of Taio with Kevin Kan. And some little-known Hong Kong history with former Royal Hong Kong Police Officer Les Bird. Local resident and Hong Kong stand-up comic Ben Quinlan on what most visitors don’t see in Hong Kong — the great stories — and culture of the territory’s many outlying islands. All that and more on this edition of Eye on Travel.
