If your next trip deserves more thought than a late-night flight search, the Luxury Travel Fair might be worth a day of your time. Condé Nast Traveller's annual event for seasoned explorers runs from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 November 2026 at Olympia in London, and readers can claim two complimentary tickets by quoting the code PTCNDS at booking. Watch the small print, though: a £2.50 booking fee applies per ticket, the offer covers any single day of the fair, and it closes at 11.59pm on Wednesday 4 November 2026.
So what actually happens there? The core of the fair is a curated floor of more than 70 UK travel specialists — the calibre of Kuoni, Abercrombie & Kent, Audley Travel and Hidden Iceland — where you can talk through trip ideas face to face. Past editions have also drawn exhibitors like Oceania Cruises, Emirates Holidays, National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions, Heritage Wine Tours and Tracks Safaris. In other words, it's a rare chance to compare everything from a shoestring Asia overland route to an Amazon expedition cruise in one afternoon, without committing to anything.
The talks programme is the other big draw. The Travellers Tales Theatre hosts live sessions from Condé Nast Traveller editors and travel specialists, dishing out insider tips and flagging the destinations that in-the-know travellers are booking next. For anyone at the early ideas stage of a big trip, hearing where the experts are actually sending people right now is arguably worth the train fare alone.
Who is this for? Not casual browser-types after a last-minute package deal. The fair skews towards discerning travellers with a bucket-list trip in mind — a safari, a polar or Amazonian expedition, a wine tour through a storied region — who'd rather interrogate a specialist before spending serious money. If that sounds like you, going early in the run gives you the weekend to follow up with any operators who catch your eye. And even if you leave without booking, you'll come away with a shortlist of operators and a much sharper sense of what your budget buys in 2027.
The practical bit: book online, enter PTCNDS in the promotional box and hit 'Use Code' to claim your two free tickets (plus that £2.50-per-ticket fee). Olympia is well served by the Kensington Olympia station and a short hop from Westfield-era transport links across west London, so it's an easy city break add-on — pair the fair with a weekend of eating and gallery-hopping in the capital and you've got a properly good November escape.
