Charleston has been ranked by Travel + Leisure readers as the top city for an even dozen years.

This month, the publication's editor-in-chief and the CEO of its publisher came to town to check it out for themselves. On June 4, they shared their thoughts about the area's growing tourism reputation in front of 450 industry leaders at Explore Charleston 's annual meeting.

Neil Vogul, CEO of the company Dotdash Meredith , and Jacqui Gifford of T + L also discussed what trends they see driving the travel business.

Gifford said the fear of missing out (a.k.a. FOMO ) has been a key factor since the pandemic. She said her publication's coverage of destinations like Charleston are heavily influenced by what readers want to know so that they can envision their experience durin

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