Travel & Leisure's Jacqui Gifford
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m joined by Jacqui Gifford, the Editor-in-Chief of America’s biggest travel magazine, Travel & Leisure. With a circulation of almost two million and an online readership of nine million, the magazine has always inspired me with its incredible covers, breathtaking photography and moving features, and Jacqui will absolutely inspire you with this episode. Having lived all over the world, and specialising in travel and lifestyle content for two decades, she has so many wonderful destinations in her travel diaries for you to add to your travel wish list. From Anguilla and Mexico to Bermuda and Puglia, speaking to me from NYC, these are the travel diaries of Travel & Leisure’s Jacqui Gifford.
Destination Recap:
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Kauai, Hawaii, USA
- Japan: Tokyo, Peninsula Hotel Tokyo, Okinawa, and Setouchi
- Saudi Arabia
- Ireland: West Coast and Dublin
- Morocco: Marrakech and Dar Ahlam, Atlas Mountains
- Paris, France: Le Meurice, Shangri-La Paris and Park Hyatt Paris
- Borgo Egnazia, Puglia, Italy
- Gritti Palace, Venice, Italy
- Bermuda
- Mexico: Oaxaca and San Miguel de Allende
- Anguilla: Belmond Cap Juluca, Four Seasons Anguilla, Malliouhana and Zemi Beach House
- Riga, Latvia
- Rwanda
- Southern India including Goa and Kerala, and Varanasi
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm a travel and entertainment journalist. |
| 0:13.2 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world |
| 0:19.7 | and the travel experiences and destinations |
| 0:22.7 | that have shaped their lives. On today's episode, I'm joined by Jackie Gifford, the editor-in-chief |
| 0:29.1 | of America's biggest travel magazine, Travel and Leisure, or as they would say, travel and leisure. |
| 0:35.4 | So let me tell you a little bit first about why I was so excited when |
| 0:39.1 | Jackie agreed to come on the podcast. I'm half American and every school holiday we'd fly to the |
| 0:44.3 | US to visit my family in Miami and on every trip I'd go with my parents to Barnes & Noble, which |
| 0:50.6 | is a bookstore there and I'd pick up the biggest pile of American magazines. |
| 0:55.7 | There was just something so exotic, so exciting about how they lurked and smelt. |
| 1:02.1 | The covers were different. They were a different size. The ads were for things we couldn't |
| 1:06.1 | get at home in England. And I'd spent all my pocket money and read them by the pool. |
| 1:11.1 | And one of the magazines that I'd always buy was travel and leisure. |
| 1:15.2 | So it's one of the magazines that I followed for the longest time, given that I'm getting |
| 1:18.8 | on of it these days. |
| 1:20.1 | And it always inspired me with its incredible covers and moving features. |
| 1:24.8 | And Jackie, who's at the helm now, will absolutely inspire you with this episode. |
| 1:29.1 | It is chock full of travel inspo. |
| 1:32.1 | Lots of destinations that haven't been talked about on the podcast before, which I always love. |
| 1:36.1 | And Jackie herself has lived all around the world, so she's a destination expert on so many great places. |
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