Conde Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler magazine is filled with the travel secrets of celebrated writers and sophisticated travelers. Each monthly issue features breathtaking destinations, including the finest art, architecture, fashion, culture, cuisine, lodgings, and shopping. With Condé Nast Traveler as your guide, you'll discover the best islands, cities, spas, castles, and cruises.

The Editor’s Letter

Conde Nast Traveler

A Call to Action • As the founder of the community Nomadness Travel Tribe, Evita Robinson has spent years calling for greater representation in travel. Now that companies seem to be listening, she asks: What are we going to do about it?

In This Issue

Departure From the Past • With airports heading into their biggest transformation in decades, forget everything you know about catching a plane

Time to Get On Board • No travel sector has been impacted more publicly by COVID-19 than the cruise industry, which has had to rethink many of its formerly standard practices. As travelers begin returning to the ships they love, here’s what awaits

Welcome Changes • Hotels will operate differently in the coming years, and enhanced cleaning protocols are just the tip of the spear

A Whole New Flight Plan • The design of airplanes won’t be all that different from what we’re used to, but the feeling of being on them sure will

The City as Laboratory • Despite the challenges faced by urban centers throughout the world right now, new measures could ultimately make them better places to live and visit

It’s All About the Little Things • A celebration of hotel pools, translation tools, friendly strangers, stellar staffers, getting lost, and other small pleasures that make travel wonderful

Seeing Yourself Through Someone Else’s Eyes

The Hotel Pool

Translation Devices

Postcard From Italy

First Journeys

Postcard From Chengdu

Going the Wrong Way

Postcard From Kashmir

Hotel Housekeepers

Unlikely Friendships

Paying It Forward

Postcard From Dubai

Las Vegas, in All Its Splendor

Postcard From London

Cruising With the Entire Family

Postcard From Spain

Postcard From New York City

the lands we love • Even when we’re not on a trip, we all carry within us the places that have made us who we are, revisiting them in our minds, especially in difficult times like these. On the following pages, some of our favorite travelers go back to the destinations they hold closest

SPAIN

MILFORD TRACK, NEW ZEALAND

OSLO

HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ATLANTA

SPERLONGA, ITALY

HONG KONG

ANTIGUA

NATIONAL MONUMENTS, UTAH

MALI

KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA

THE SEA OF CORTEZ, MEXICO

KOLKATA

ALEPPO

LIMA

MONGOLIA

ESFAHAN, IRAN

SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE

EDINBURGH

CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, NEW MEXICO

MEXICO AND MOROCCO

KAUAI

CAIRO

a traveler’s tale • Wunmi Mosaku on Ghana