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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.
Renee Brincks edits the Alaska eNewsletter for Travel Weekly and writes destination features for the publication's print and digital platforms. She first explored Alaska while working for a tour company in Juneau, and has since covered the state for BBC Travel, Sunset, Alaska Airlines Beyond and others. Her travel, culture and culinary stories also appear in National Geographic Traveler, Hemispheres, Zagat, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Des Moines Register.
Gay Nagle Myers currently covers the Caribbean for Travel Weekly, but she has covered many destinations and facets of the industry during her 30-plus years with Travel Weekly. She has been recognized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization; the tourist boards of Jamaica, the U.S. Virgin Islands and St. Kitts; and the tourism association of Mazatlan, Mexico for excellence in travel journalism. She received the Gold Adrian Award from HSMAI in February 2015 for a series of recent articles on Cuba. Myers is a New Yorker based now in Williamsburg, Va.
Miami-based Tom Stieghorst has been the senior editor in charge of cruise coverage for Travel Weekly since 2012. He has worked as a news reporter and editor for three decades in Washington, D.C., New York and Florida, most recently at the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.
Stieghorst grew up in the Midwest and is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
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 Mountain/Ski and Europe eNewsletters 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.
Holly V. Kapherr is a writer based in Orlando. She covers Florida for Travel Weekly's e-newsletter.
Previously, she was editor of Caribbean Travel + Life and Florida Travel + Life, and senior editor at Islands and Destination Weddings & Honeymoons.
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Brand new Cay12/12/2018The Hawks Cay Resort on Duck Key has been given a lighter, brighter, more modern look in a $50 million...Read more Tovin Lapan is a West Coast-based freelance journalist. He has covered Mexico, Las Vegas, California and other destinations for a variety of publications. His work has appeared in U.S. News & World Report, the Guardian US and Lucky Peach.
Jamie Biesiada covers retail travel sellers, reporting news about travel advisers and agencies, consortia and OTAs as well as GDSs and other technologies driving the retail distribution channel. Biesiada most recently had been the managing editor for the Manasquan, N.J., Star News Group since 2011. From 2009 to 2011, she was a beat reporter for the Star News Group, covering communities and events up and down the New Jersey shore. In 2013, Biesiada was named to Editor & Publisher's Top 25 Under 35 list, which honors the most promising young journalists.
Sarah Feldberg is a writer and editor based in Las Vegas and San Francisco. She previously served as editor in chief of Las Vegas Weekly and as the magazine's digital editor. She has contributed travel writing to USA Today, the Guardian, Conde Nast Traveler and the BBC and previously hosted a weekly public radio show.
Jeri Clausing edits the luxury and river cruise eNewsletters for Travel Weekly. A veteran newspaper and wire service reporter and editor, she developed wanderlust from her father, who moved the family from Michigan to American Samoa to Texas to Saudi Arabia.
A freelance writer and former senior editor for Travel Weekly, Clausing has provided in-depth coverage of trends in the luxury and hotel sectors, including detailed reports from development hot spots around the world.
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.
Jeri Clausing edits the luxury and river cruise eNewsletters for Travel Weekly. A veteran newspaper and wire service reporter and editor, she developed wanderlust from her father, who moved the family from Michigan to American Samoa to Texas to Saudi Arabia.
A freelance writer and former senior editor for Travel Weekly, Clausing has provided in-depth coverage of trends in the luxury and hotel sectors, including detailed reports from development hot spots around the world.