Travel Tips Travel + Leisure Editor in Chief Jacqueline Gifford and Journalist Alex Wagner on Past and Future Travel The experts reflect on a lifetime of travel — and discuss what they're looking forward to in 2021. By Hillary Maglin Hillary Maglin Instagram Twitter Hillary Maglin is an associate editor and writer who's been covering travel products since 2018. Before that, she spent three years as a news, entertainment, and lifestyle writer. She has been published in Travel + Leisure, People, InStyle, and more.Hillary covers travel, luggage, comfortable shoes, stylish travel apparel, beauty, and lifestyle products. She has written hundreds of product roundups for Travel + Leisure, People, Instyle, Real Simple, and Rachael Ray In Season. Prior to joining T+L, she was a freelance writer covering current events, pop culture, fashion, and celebrities.Experience: Hillary Maglin joined Dotdash Meredith in 2018. She started her career as an editorial intern for Rachael Ray In Season before becoming an assistant editor and then associate editor, covering products and shopping for Travel + Leisure, People, InStyle, and more. While at Travel + Leisure, she also worked on the brand's Webby Award-nominated social media team.Before finding her niche in product writing, Hillary spent some time on the news and entertainment side of journalism, reporting live on television and covering events like the Tribeca Film Festival, New York Fashion Week, award shows, music festivals, movie premieres, and more. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines Published on April 2, 2021 Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Courtesy of Travel + Leisure When you travel as much as, say, journalist and TV producer Alex Wagner, or Travel + Leisure Editor in Chief Jacqueline Gifford, it's easy to feel like something's missing in life after a year of travel restrictions. And even when travel is possible, it's just, well, not the same. "Just the human connection of going to places, seeing people, talking to them… interacting with them, that connection has been really dimmed by the protective gear that we have to wear everywhere, all the time when we're out in the world," Wagner noted in this segment of T+L's The Evolution of Travel, hosted by Gifford. In the segment, Wagner and Gifford reminisced about their countless past travels and discussed the imminent return of everything from flying to Broadway to eating out. The even better news, according to Wagner? An eventual "explosion" of returning social events and art in cultural hubs like New York City is coming — and it's coming soon. Watch the full discussion below. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit