Television can bring the world into people's living rooms. It can travel to the remotest corners of the globe, capture images and tell both factual and fictional stories set in exotic locations so that viewers experience vicariously the excitement of being there. As a result, production crews venture to all parts of this country, and any others where a story or setting might be located. Travel arrangements for a production bring in factors that aren't part of shooting in the production's home town, not the least being cost. There are impacts on the production from the procedures of getting people and equipment into and out of countries, and the unfamiliarity with the way everyday things are done in other countries. In Australia these may not be issues, but there is an interest in remote and inaccessible places that can create particular challenges to production. How to get there, how to sustain the crew once it is there, and how to access resources and support for production in an unfamiliar environment become the issues instead. The special needs in dealing with remote Indigenous communities were discussed in Chapter 16.

Arrangements for a production to travel include the means of getting there, accommodation and meals for crew (and cast) when they are there, various documents that are necessary for overseas business travel, and briefing about cultures and customs that will be unfamiliar. Ordinary travel requires research, negotiation and lateral thinking.