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| Global Editorial Director | Divia Thani |
|---|---|
| Deputy Global Editorial Director and Head of Editorial Content, US | Jesse Ashlock |
| Frequency | 8 issues per year |
| Total circulation (2024) | 712,343[1] |
| First issue | 1987; 38 years ago (1987) |
| Company | Condé Nast |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0893-9683 |
Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published byCondé Nast. The magazine has won 25 National Magazine Awards.[2]
TheCondé Nast unit ofAdvance Publications purchasedSignature, a magazine forDiners Club members, for $25 million in 1986. The company used it as the basis forCondé Nast Traveler,[3] led by SirHarold Evans (1928–2020) in 1987,[4] with a focus on literary journalism and hard news reporting. As editor in chief, Evans coined the motto "Truth in Travel", which declared that travel industry freebies would not be accepted.
Condé Nast Traveler is currently led by Global Editorial Director, Divia Thani. The magazine is produced atCondé Nast's US headquarters atOne World Trade Center in New York City. A separate UK edition,Condé Nast Traveller, is produced from Condé Nast's offices at The Adelphi in London.
Condé Nast Traveler's main competitor isTravel + Leisure.
Condé Nast Traveler, with the aid of social networking websitesFacebook andYouTube, produced a series of videos officially titledMany People, Many Places, consisting of 13 videos. Each video lasts between three and four minutes long where over 70 people from 70 countries (including English-speaking countries) reveal how to say everyday phrases in their country of birth. TheFilipino representative, an unidentified woman, counted numbers and money, sangHappy Birthday, and said "Cheers!" in English rather thanTagalog before stating that the Tagalog language lackedtongue twisters. Despite being able to sing the national anthem of the Philippines in Tagalog, the videos went viral on social media, with users complaining the woman was not properly portraying Filipino culture in comparison to the other representatives from the 70 other countries did. In response,Condé Nast Traveler admitted in a Facebook post that "[o]ne of our subjects, a Filipino woman, answered our questions in English rather than Tagalog based on her experience growing up and living in the Philippines... we appreciate your feedback and take seriously our responsibility to respectfully represent the many different aspects of the countries we cover atCondé Nast Traveler."[5][6][7]
