From the Philippines, there’s hopeless-romantic island girl Samantha del Carmen, who wants her dates to get along with her parents and five other siblings. That’s a very Pinoy trait! Sam will meet her matches in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Polish-Korean pretty boy Anthony Zarsky, who just moved from New York City to Singapore, is flown to Da Lat, a scenic mountain town frequented by honeymooners in southern Vietnam, to go on dates outside his usual preference of Korean girls.
Quirky and outspoken Malaysian Tahanee Shauki stresses there’s more to her than the stereotypical notion about hijabsters like her. She meets her dates in Yogyakarta, the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy. “By definition, a social experiment is a psychological or sociological research for testing people’s reaction to certain situations or events. The experiment relies on a particular approach when a main source of information is people with their own knowledge and point of view. The entire premise of ‘Travel for Love’ is a social experiment.
We started off with looking at producing an original nonfiction series on travel and food. The challenge here was how to cut through the multitude of shows with similar themes, so we had to find a unique edge and premise for our new series.