I've lived in Paris for over two years and have visited many times before since my husband grew up in France.
11.01.2024 - 16:47 / cntraveler.com / Nast Traveler / Megan Spurrell / Conde Nast
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It's a new year, which means it's time to stop daydreaming and start planning your travels for the next 12 months. Can't decide where to visit? Read on to find out the best places to go in 2024—from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Accra, Ghana—as well as the process behind making our selections according to Condé Nast Traveler editors Arati Menon and Sarah James.
Lale Arikoglu: This feels hilarious to be interviewing two people that I talk to every day.
Hi, I'm Lale Arikoglu with a new episode of Women Who Travel, where I'm getting to talk to my very own colleagues and Condé Nast Traveler, traveler editors, Arati Menon and Sara James about the 24 best places to go in 2024.
Arati and Sarah, could you introduce yourselves and talk a little bit about what you do at Condé Nast Traveler?
Sarah James: So, I'm Sarah. I'm the Deputy Digital editor. I'm in London, so I work across Condé Nast Traveler UK online.
LA: And Sarah, I will say, you also seem to know every single restaurant publicist in London 'cause last time I was home, you hooked me up with some amazing meals.
SJ: Yeah, food is my, my jam. So I've been to every restaurant, either myself or I send a team, yeah. Anyone needs a recommendation, condénasttraveler.co.uk.
LA: [laughs] And Arati, talk a little bit about what you are doing for Traveler, and how you're working with all the different Condé Nast Travelers around the world.
Arati Menon: So, hi. Yes. I'm Arati Menon, and I'm the Global Digital Director at Condé Nast Traveler. I live and work in New York with Lale, and work very, very closely with her.
LA: Yeah. Well you don't live with me. Sometimes it feels like we live together.
AM: [laughs] We practically do. That's a little bit scary.
LA: I think I spend more time with you than I do with literally anyone else.
AM: Probably. And then go home, and continue our conversations.
LA: [laughs] Exactly.
AM: Which is a little bit scary and we know each other's wardrobes intimately and what we are doing for Sunday brunch, et cetera, et cetera. But um, back to work, I work with an incredible team of editors and writers, not just in the US but across our teams in different markets. It's like the UK, I work with Sarah really, really closely as well as editors in Spain and the Middle East and India and China. I co-lead this list each year with my wonderful colleague, Megan Spurrell. And yeah, excited to be here and, uh, to be talking about it.
LA: So much of how I travel is shaped by working at a travel magazine, but I'm interested to know kind of how you came into it and how that informs the decisions you make as travel editors.
AM: So for
I've lived in Paris for over two years and have visited many times before since my husband grew up in France.
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