Wendy is Condé
Nast Traveler’s consumer news editor and writes the magazine’s practical
advice column, The Perrin Report. Considered an authority on consumer
travel issues, she has received numerous awards. In 2006 her feature “The
Fabulous Fifty” was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the magazine
industry’s most prestigious editorial honor. She received the 2005 award for Travel Journalist of the
Year conferred by the American Society of Travel Agents. And her expose about medical care on
cruise ships won an investigative journalism award in the Lowell Thomas Travel
Journalism Competition sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers
Foundation.
Wendy’s blog The
Perrin Post, which has been published on Concierge.com since August 2006
and on Truth.Travel since October 2009, has been called “one of the world’s
best travel blogs” by The Telegraph, recognized by The Chicago Tribune for its extensive content, singled out as the leading travel-magazine
blog by business travel expert Joe Brancatelli, and named a
finalist for best informative/practical blog in the 2007 Travvies awards. In March 2009 Wendy created the popular
daily feature “Deal of the Day,” which spawned The Perrin Postcard monthly
newsletter (which you can sign up for here) and ultimately spun off into the
magazine’s Deal of the Day blog.
Wendy writes feature-length articles on a wide variety of
travel topics and compiles and edits “Wendy Perrin’s Annual List of Top Travel
Specialists,” which has become an industry standard. Other features she created that have become annual staples of the
magazine are “Wendy Perrin’s Guide to Affordable Villa Vacations," “The Dream List," and the “Cruise Guide." She is also responsible for the arrangement and reportage of the $25,000 dream trip produced annually for Conde Nast Traveler’s Dream Trip winner.
Wendy is the critically acclaimed author of Wendy Perrin’s Secrets Every Smart Traveler
Should Know (Fodor’s, 1997). The book, which was praised by The Washington Post as “a lively and
useful guide….By far the best of [the] new travel advice guides on the
bookstore shelves,” inspired an Off-Broadway musical comedy revue of the same
name, which played in Manhattan, Miami, and Boston.
Wendy regularly speaks and moderates panels at industry
conferences and Condé Nast Traveler
events, including the magazine's annual World Savers Congress, Travel Specialists Awards
conference, and Readers’ Choice Awards ceremony. She has addressed consumer audiences on “the secrets every
smart traveler should know” at private functions, in bookstores, aboard luxury
cruise ships, at the Harvard Club of New York, and on television on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Today Show,”
“Good Morning America” and multiple programs on CNN. As for radio, she was guest host of a month-long travel series on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show in May 2008 and hosted "The Bloomberg Radio/Conde Nast Traveler Report" on the Bloomberg Radio Network -- a minute-long feature of travel tips that aired three times daily over a one-year period -- as well as "Today's Traveler," another daily minute-long feature broadcast to up to 1,100 Westwood One stations.
Lately she has been speaking frequently to travel-industry
and publishing-industry audiences on how to harness the
power of social media. She has been on many lists of twitterers to follow,
including Online College Degree's “100 Amazingly Insightful People You Can Learn From on Twitter" and The New York Post's "10 Twitter Feeds That'll Get You Up To Speed." Her
two twitter accounts--@perrinpost and @wendyperrin—exceed 13,000 followers.
Wendy received her B.A. cum laude from Harvard, where she
majored in History and Literature. She resides in the New York City area with
her husband and two young sons.
Wendy can be reached at wendy_perrin@condenast.com.
