{"id":2741,"date":"2024-02-16T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T05:39:56","slug":"national-geographics-travelers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/16\/national-geographics-travelers-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic&#8217;s &#8220;Travelers of the Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>National Geographic has selected is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/culture\/article\/best-of-the-world-2024-travelers-of-the-year\">2024 Travelers of the Year<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A drag queen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hispanic woman who runs a tour business in Mexico<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One legged athlete and disability access advocate, a guy in Montana<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A grandmother who runs Pasta Grannies, a Youtube channel preserving &#8220;the tradition of handmade Italian pasta and home cooking&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Family in Ghana, Africa (originally from Miami) that runs a tour business helping adults of African descent to trace their family history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A woman who is a &#8220;sustainability supporter&#8221; who is famous for posting carbon guilt information on her global trips. (Note &#8211; National Geographic runs a fleet of ocean going ships and aircraft for global tours).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A &#8220;unhoused&#8221; (formerly known as &#8220;homeless&#8221;) advocate who trains those to be walking tour guides in their cities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Founder of luxury travel resorts, he&#8217;s Hispanic from Columbia (the country), with an MBA from Harvard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dolly Parton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Schoenmaker or Prof. Mark Wolters didn&#8217;t make the cut. Wonder why&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2021\/12\/19\/national-geographic-spent-decades-as-a-racist-reporter-of-life-and-that-is-their-own-conclusion\/\">National Geographic spent decades as a racist reporter of life \u2013 and that is their own conclusion \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a>. As I explain there, based on NGS&#8217;s admitted history of falsification over decades, they can no longer be trusted as a source of information on anything.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2022\/12\/12\/part-2-climate-hypocrites\/\">Part 2: Climate Hypocrites \u2013 Coldstreams<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-2.png 748w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-2-600x241.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-2-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-1024x526.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-600x308.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-850x437.png 850w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic selects its &#8220;2024 Travelers of the Year&#8221;. The list of selectees has some common characteristics &#8211; see if you can spot them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}