
Sage Travel Challenge · Honoring Anthony Bourdain, Samantha Brown & Andrew Zimmern
The all-hosts challenge: recreate the most featured experiences across all three hosts by the end of the season.
Inaugural season 2027 · Jan 1, 2027 – Dec 31, 2027 · upcoming
Photo · Maks Karochkin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
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Photo · Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0Honoring Anthony Bourdain, Samantha Brown & Andrew Zimmern
The all-hosts challenge: recreate the most featured experiences across all three hosts by the end of the season.
Host names are used as tribute references only. Legal review is required before any commercial use of names or likenesses in marketing.
Photo · el ui · CC BY 3.0How it works
Dietary, cultural or religious opt-outs never reduce eligibility for the core experience count.
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Pick a destination the honoree featured. Any route, any budget — the challenge is the experience, not the spend.
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Visit the place, take the walk, eat and drink what they did — dietary, cultural or religious constraints permitting, with no penalty.
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Photos, video or a written entry uploaded to Sage. Tagging your own social channels is optional.
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Editors verify each entry against the experience card. Points are awarded only for verified entries; ties go to the earliest.
Scoring
Featured experiences are added by editors after rights/legal review; none are seeded.
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Season
Inaugural season 2027
Jan 1, 2027 – Dec 31, 2027
Leaderboard: opens with the season. Ties are broken by earliest verified submission.
Stop 1 · Japan
Where all three routes meet: markets, counters and alleys.
Neon-lit precision meets centuries-old ritual: the world's largest metropolis rewards curiosity at every scale.
Stop 2 · France
The bistro table and the neighbourhood walk.
The capital of palace hotels, grand boulevards and the long lunch — as romantic as its reputation and considerably more interesting.
Stop 3 · Thailand
Street food capital — daring dishes and gentle ones.
River palaces, rooftop bars and the greatest street food on the planet — Bangkok is the luxury bargain of Asia.
Stop 4 · Morocco
Medina, spice and the square at nightfall.
Riads, rooftops and the roar of Jemaa el-Fna — the Red City is Africa's great luxury capital.
Stop 5 · United Kingdom
Markets, the river and a city of a thousand kitchens.
Mayfair's grand dames, the West End, world-class museums that cost nothing, and a dining scene as global as the city.
Stop 6 · Italy
Trattorias, piazzas and the art of the long lunch.
Two and a half thousand years of the Western story stacked in one walkable city, with the best carbonara on earth in between.
Photo · Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
Photo · Jakub Hałun · CC BY 4.0
Photo · Güldem Üstün from Istanbul, TURKEY · CC BY 2.0