The Fast Track Weekly Edit

Welcome to The Fast Track, a newsletter brought to you by the editors at Travel + Leisure. If you’re new here, my name is Nikki Vargas, and I’m an associate editorial director here at T+L. I’m glad you’re here.

I’m popping up in your inbox with our weekly edit, exclusive to our paid subscribers, sharing the latest stories you might have missed from The Fast Track. This week, we considered a question we’ve seen floating around the Substack community: Do legacy brands belong on Substack? It’s a good question and one that deserved a thoughtful answer, so I sat down with our editor in chief, Jacqueline Gifford, for a candid discussion about Travel + Leisure and its place in the Substack ecosystem.

We also launched our new fashion column, Styl(ish), which will share stories at the intersection of fashion and travel. To kick off Styl(ish), our articles editor, Denny Lee, turned to the Travel + Leisure family for a story on the many ways a destination can influence how we dress. Speaking of fashion, join Jacqui and me this afternoon at 11 a.m. EST for a Substack Live chat all about style.

Finally, does the perfect hotel exist? In Japan, it does. In today’s story, our senior editor Maya Kachroo-Levine looks at the hotel that scored a rare and perfect 100 out of 100 with our readers—and why.

Until next week,