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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