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Cruise
Andrea Zelinski
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Andrea Zelinski is Travel Weekly's senior editor covering the cruise industry.

She spent the last 15 years as a political reporter, most recently covering Texas. She has written for Texas Monthly, the Houston Chronicle and The Associated Press. Her work has also appeared in Bustle.

She is an avid traveler who "thru-hiked" the Appalachian Trail in 2020. 


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Home Based
Jamie Biesiada
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Jamie Biesiada covers retail travel sellers, reporting news about travel advisors and agencies, consortia, host agencies and OTAs. She also is co-host of the Trade Secrets podcast. In addition, she covers GDSs and other technologies driving the retail distribution channel, as well as theme parks. She was named the American Society of Travel Advisors' 2019 ASTA Travel Journalist of the Year. Biesiada's roots are in community journalism. Before Travel Weekly, she was most recently the editor of Star News Group based in Manasquan, N.J., covering communities up and down the New Jersey shore. She was named to Editor & Publisher's Top 25 Under 35 list in 2013, which honors the most promising young journalists.

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River Cruise
Nicole Edenedo
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Nicole Edenedo is Travel Weekly's senior editor covering the tour operator and river cruise beats.

After graduating from California State University, this Los Angeles native moved to the East Coast, working for television stations in Maryland, Delaware and New York and for New York City-based digital media outlets.

Her experience in both editorial and broadcast journalism was with consumer-facing media, reporting on subjects ranging from interior design to the entertainment, and she has worked as a television news anchor. 


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Caribbean
Omar Perez
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Omar Perez covers the Caribbean for Travel Weekly. A graduate of Florida International University, Perez has written for publications including The Miami Herald, Orlando Weekly, Miami Daily Business Review, various editions of the New Times and others. He also served as a stringer assisting in news gathering for the Miami bureau of The New York Times.

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A stroll through colonial times in Old San Juan12/26/2023Old San Juan is a destination that visitors can enjoy at their own pace. But the appeal might be even...Read more

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Hawaii
Christine Hitt
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Christine Hitt covers Hawaii for Travel Weekly. Raised on the island of Oahu, she has traveled all of the islands extensively many times and has been writing about Hawaii for 15 years. Her work has been seen in the Los Angeles Times, SFGate, and Honolulu and Hawaii magazines. She offers a wealth of knowledge and experience to share about each island, from culture to travel tips and news.

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Maui travel is recovering faster than expected, report notes12/25/2023The Economic Research Organization at the University of Hawaii finds that October arrivals came in at...Read more

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Europe
Felicity Long
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Felicity Long has been covering the travel industry for more than 15 years. Her areas of expertise include Europe, family travel and ski, and she is the author of "Great Escapes: New England" (The Countryman Press). She edits the Europe eNewsletter and contributes features to the destinations sections of Travel Weekly.

Long is the recipient of the Cacique Award and the Yo Leonardo Award for international travel writing.

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Revved up for Italy's Emilia-Romagna12/14/2023The upcoming "Ferrari" film could boost the region as a tourism destination.Read more

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Mexico
Meagan Drillinger
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Meagan Drillinger has been writing about travel since 2009. Her journeys have taken her to more than 30 countries, but her favorite has always been Mexico for its rich cultural diversity, food, landscape and its people. She's a graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and when she's not exploring her home of New York City, she's plotting the next big adventure.

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Tulum is taking off12/20/2023The new Tulum Airport will add international flights at the end of March. Delta, American, United and...Read more

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Las Vegas
Paul Szydelko
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A freelance writer and editor in southern Nevada, Paul Szydelko has covered Las Vegas news and entertainment for more than three decades. He was managing editor of the Henderson Home News for more than a decade and has also worked for Las Vegas Magazine, Vegas Seven magazine and the Las Vegas Sun. He now copy edits books for the University of Nevada Press and contributes to Desert Companion magazine.


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Africa
Dorine Reinstein
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Based in South Africa, Reinstein is a travel and tourism journalist for several award-winning South African publications, including Travel News Weekly, Southern African Tourism Update and Travel Buyer. She has traveled extensively throughout Africa over the past decade.

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