Condé Nast Traveler
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Condé Nast Traveler is an American magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. It has its origins in a mailing sent out by the Diners Club club beginning in 1953, listing locations that would take the card. It began taking advertising in 1955. In order to attract more advertisers, it became a full fledged magazine, The Diners Club Magazine, in 1960. It later took the name Signature. Condé Nast bought Signature in 1986, and relaunched it under its current name the next year.
It currently specializes in luxury travel and reviews of high-priced hotels, products, and services. The magazine also aims a proportion of its space at business travelers.
In addition to writing about various exotic locales so that readers may consider them for destinations, it also rates travel facilities such as hotels and airlines. The subtitle of the magazine is "Truth in Travel." The high-end magazine publishes reviews of only the best hotels in the world, and the advertisements in the magazine are for consistently luxury brands, including Chanel, Bulgari, Jaguar, Mercedes, and Dolce and Gabbana.
Every month, the magazine has a "Where Are You?" contest, wherein readers have to guess the pictured location based on cryptic clues. Each monthly winner wins $1,000; they are then entered into the annual grand prize drawing for a $10,000 vacation.
Every August Condé Nast Traveler features a compendium of their favorite travel specialists including both generalists and those who specialize in particular countries or regions. This is called "Wendy Perrin's Top Travel Specialist" list.
Condé Nast Traveler is produced at Condé Nast Publications' U.S. headquarters at 4 Times Square, New York, NY.
There is also a UK edition, produced from Condé Nast's offices at Vogue House in London. The most noticeable difference is that this edition uses the British spelling for the title: Condé Nast Traveller. The format and content are very similar to the U.S. edition.
[edit] External links
- Condé Nast Traveler corporate site
- Condé Nast Traveller UK site
- Condé Nast Traveler History and Content
- Magazine Readership
- Wendy Perrin's Top Travel Specialists of 2008
Conde Nast Traveler's sub title is "Truth in Travel" which means that their writers and editors pay their own way and travel unannounced.
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