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Chris Dong

As a freelance travel writer and multimedia journalist, I cover everything from new hotels and airlines to loyalty programs, credit card points, and more. I have a passion for inspiring people to travel, stay, fly, and dine better.

My written work can be found in top-tier publications: Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR, The Washington Post, and Lonely Planet, among others. I'm also a video creator for Travel + Leisure's social channels, providing a one-two punch: the ability to tie in my editorial work with self-produced video content.

Previously, I was a reporter and newsletter editor at The Points Guy, where I tracked and reported on consumer trends and COVID-19 travel developments from over a dozen global destinations.

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  • CNN Travel
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  • The Washington Post
    1 article
  • Travel + Leisure
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  • Double-decker passenger planes are a dying breed. These airlines are keeping them alive
    18 Apr—CNN Travel
    CNN — They’re massive pieces of engineering that seem to defy physics as they hang in the air during takeoff and landing, but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 — are still some of the most popular aircraft around. Perhaps it’s their whisper-quiet cabins and spacious designs. Or the availability of opulent amenities, like shower suites and onboard bars. For aviation enthusiasts, there’s the added novelty of flying on a plane’s upper deck or nose. However, it’s...
  • More travelers are ‘dry-tripping.’ Airlines and hotels have noticed.
    22 Jan 2024—The Washington Post
    Zero-proof cocktails are popping up on menus as more people choose sober travel Mindful drinking or sober curiosity isn’t new. However, what’s different now is a social acceptance — some might even call it a societal embrace — of no- or low-alcohol products available for travelers on menus in the air and on the ground. As a nondrinker myself, it wasn’t long ago that ordering a zero-proof beverage at a hotel bar often drew the ire of the bartender.
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  • ‘Sustainable luxury’ is all the rage. But how does it actually work?
    27 Dec 2023—CNN Travel
    Photos of 1 Hotels 1 of 8 CNN — The streets of Midtown Manhattan are a frenzied maze of hot dog vendors and taxi cabs; high-end boutiques and chintzy gift shops; out-of-towners and locals. Amid the hubbub is a three-story living wall of English ivy, a small slice of urban zen growing on the facade of a building. Passersby who look up on the northeast corner of 58th Street and Sixth Avenue are reminded that nature can still thrive here. Conceptualized nearly a decade ago, 1 Hotels is a...

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