Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler
Condé Nast Traveler
Executive Editor Jim Baker
Frequency Monthly
Total circulation
(2011)		 811,754[1]
First issue 1953 (1953-month)
Company Condé Nast
Country United States
Website www.concierge.com/cntraveler
ISSN 0893-9683


Condé Nast Traveler is a US magazine published by Condé Nast. 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. In 1992, European Travel & Life magazine was purchased and incorporated.

Under its founding editor, Sir Harold Evans, Condé Nast Traveler won four National Magazine Awards, including one for General Excellence (1991). His successor as editor-in-chief, Thomas J. Wallace, secured two more NMAs during his tenure, which ended in 2005.

The subtitle of the magazine is "Truth in Travel," although the high-end magazine consistently features the best hotels in the world, the advertisements are almost exclusively for luxury brands, including Chanel, Bulgari, Jaguar, Mercedes, and Dolce and Gabbana, and a portion of its space is aimed at business travelers.

In addition to writing and photography about various popular as well as exotic locales, the magazine also rates travel destinations and travel facilities such as hotels and airlines. The ratings emerge primarily from the annual readers' survey, which results in the Readers' Choice Awards (RCA) and a variety of other survey-based awards published throughout the year. Since its inception under Mr. Evans in 1988, the RCA and the spin-off Gold List have become a popular feature with readers as well as a powerful encomium in the travel industry.

The magazine has predictable annual features. Every January, the Gold List is published. Every February, top reader-rated cruise ships. Every April (or June), top reader-rated spas. Every May, "hot" new hotels, restaurants, and spas. Every June (or April), top reader-rated golf resorts. Every August, favored travel agents, including both generalists and those who specialize in particular activities or regions, under the heading "Wendy Perrin's Top Travel Specialists." Every September, a complex of winners, finalists, and runners-up called "World Savers." Every October, top reader-rated business hotels. Every November, the RCA. Every December, top ski resorts. Using the survey results and other editorial products, the magazine began producing apps for iPads and iPhones in 2010.

Every month the magazine includes a "Where Are You?" contest wherein readers have to guess the pictured location based on cryptic clues; each monthly winner wins $1,000 and is entered into the annual grand prize drawing for a $10,000 holiday. The most enduring regular feature, which has always occupied the final page of the magazine, "Room with a View" consists of a photograph taken from the window or balcony of a well-situated hotel room, with text about the hotel or the destination.


Condé Nast Traveler is produced at Condé Nast's U.S. headquarters at 4 Times Square, New York, NY. The digital magazine resides at concierge.com, a part of Condé Nast Digital. Concierge.com does not adhere to the "Truth in Travel" policy, which forbids contributors from accepting complimentary accommodations, meals, or transportation. The magazine also has a Web presence at truth.travel, which was conceived, developed, and edited by Peter Kaplan during his second tenure at the magazine (2009-2010).

An entirely separate U.K. edition, Condé Nast Traveller is produced from Condé Nast's offices at Vogue House in London. It is distinguished not only by use of the British spelling of the operative word, but by marked differences in format, content, and particularly design.

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