Twice a year Travel Weekly produces a cover story on culinary travel trends. Our reporters fan out to their beats or across the globe to check out cool hospitality trends, or new restaurant or foodie scenes, or chef-guided tours. 

For this episode host Rebecca Tobin brings together Focus on Culinary editor Johanna Jainchill, and two longtime contributors -- Christina Jelski, who covers hospitality, and Jamie Biesiada, who covers retail travel and theme parks -- and the conversation quickly turned to a new mindfulness in travel and eating. Think plant-based meals, zero-proof cocktails, and how travel companies are dealing with food waste.

We wrap up with a more general discussion about pandemic-era dining trends that we think are here to stay.

This episode was recorded Feb. 10 and has been edited for length and clarity.

Episode sponsor: This episode is sponsored by ALG Vacations https://www.algvacations.com/planwithapro

Related reports:

Focus on culinary travel: On the menu in America https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-2023-On-the-menu-in-America

Travel takes on food waste: https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Travel-takes-on-food-waste

Going green on MSC Cruises https://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/Insights/Chef-Niklas-Ekstedt-is-growing-greens-on-MSC-Cruises

Zero-proof cocktails are popular at hotels and on cruise ships https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Hold-the-booze

Theme parks embrace a side of tech: https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-2021-Theme-parks-embrace-a-side-of-tech

Twice a year Travel Weekly produces a cover story on culinary travel trends. Our reporters fan out to their beats or across the globe to check out cool hospitality trends, or new restaurant or foodie scenes, or chef-guided tours. For this episode host Rebecca Tobin brings together Focus on Culinary editor Johanna Jainchill, and two longtime contributors -- Christina Jelski, who covers hospitality, and Jamie Biesiada, who covers retail travel and theme parks -- and the conversation quickly turned to a new mindfulness in travel and eating. Think plant-based meals, zero-proof cocktails, and how travel companies are dealing with food waste.
We wrap up with a more general discussion about pandemic-era dining trends that we think are here to stay.
This episode was recorded Feb. 10 and has been edited for length and clarity.
Episode sponsor: This episode is sponsored by ALG Vacations <a href="https://www.algvacations.com/planwithapro">https://www.algvacations.com/planwithapro</a>
Related reports:
Focus on culinary travel: On the menu in America <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-2023-On-the-menu-in-America">https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-2023-On-the-menu-in-America</a>
Travel takes on food waste: <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Travel-takes-on-food-waste">https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Travel-takes-on-food-waste</a>
Going green on MSC Cruises <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/Insights/Chef-Niklas-Ekstedt-is-growing-greens-on-MSC-Cruises">https://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/Insights/Chef-Niklas-Ekstedt-is-growing-greens-on-MSC-Cruises</a>
Zero-proof cocktails are popular at hotels and on cruise ships <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Hold-the-booze">https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Hold-the-booze</a>
Theme parks embrace a side of tech: <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-2021-Theme-parks-embrace-a-side-of-tech">https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Focus-on-Culinary-Travel-2021-Theme-parks-embrace-a-side-of-tech</a>

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors explore ideas, share experiences and provide insight into what they’ve uncovered while reporting on some of the biggest trends in travel.

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors explore ideas, share experiences and provide insight into what they&rsquo;ve uncovered while reporting on some of the biggest trends in travel.

Hosted by Rebecca Tobin, managing editor of Travel Weekly

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Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors take a deep dive into the biggest travel story of the week. 

In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about.  

You may be wondering: Why the Folo? Well, a folo -- f o l o -- is a journalism term, a kind of shorthand that basically means to follow a breaking news story with more in depth reporting and analysis. And at the Folo podcast, that's what we do. 

Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors take a deep dive into the biggest travel story of the week.&nbsp;
In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about. &nbsp;
You may be wondering: Why the Folo? Well, a folo -- f o l o -- is a journalism term, a kind of shorthand that basically means to follow a breaking news story with more in depth reporting and analysis. And at the Folo podcast, that's what we do.&nbsp;
Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.