Maya Kachroo-Levine Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Maya Kachroo-Levine is the senior editor at Travel + Leisure. She covers hotels, destinations (focusing on Europe, Asia, California, and Mexico), food and drink, cruises, and luxury aviation. She also works on T+L's World's Best Awards, It List, and Where to Go tentpoles. She's previously been an editor at Departures, Expedia, GOOD, Medium, and The Balance, among others, and has written for publications including LA Weekly, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, and Refinery29. She's lived in Montreal; Boston; Geneva; Ithaca, New York; Paris; and Los Angeles, where she's currently based. Maya has been traveling since she was young, taking the TGV through France and riding on the back of a motorized scooter in New Delhi as a toddler. More recently, she's copiloted a private jet, sailed on The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection's first ship, roasted agave to make mezcal in Oaxaca, Mexico, and ventured to Sweden's Arctic Circle in the middle of winter. She likes being the first in at new hotels and improving airport lounge bloody Mary mix (seriously, you can find horseradish in the unlikeliest places).• 8+ years of writing and editing experience covering travel and finance• Received a bachelor's degree in journalism and politics from Ithaca College About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process