MANY OF YOU TELL ME you read Global Traveler from cover to cover, and I hope you’ll enjoy this August issue as part of your summer reading. Perhaps you’ll be cruising at 35,000 feet on the way to some exotic locale or, like me, listening to the waves crash on the beach while getting some real R&R.

GT recently underwent its most extensive Alliance for Audited Media audit to date. We spent several months pulling individual subscription files and printing bills, newsstand details, airline lounge information and postal receipts. We go through this process to verify our distribution and circulation and to review internally the best target for the publication.

We spent part of our summer at the Global Business Travel Association conference in Chicago. Our distributors, in conjunction with GBTA, made sure Global Traveler was in every delegate’s registration bag as well as throughout the convention center and city. Eight GT staffers, including yours truly, plied the conference, and I am pleased to say we were a hit with planners and other attendees. Our cocktail reception at the Claridge House in Chicago proved an intimate epicurean success. At this event we also awarded The Trazees, selected by the readers of our millennial platform, trazeetravel.com.

We’re proud to present this issue chock-full of useful information for the independent business traveler. In these pages you’ll find in-depth surveys and more destinations than any other magazine. As this is the annual Food & Wine Issue, note the winners of our annual Wines on the Wing first- and business-class airline wine competition, as well as the best destinations for excellent wining and dining.

Best regards, and enjoy the summer. I plan to close the month by traveling south to Cape San Blas, Florida, to enjoy the waters of the Gulf of Mexico while I investigate the area’s recovery from Hurricane Michael last Oct. 10.

On a final note, I selected a trip to Lanai to celebrate my birthday — thanks for all your suggestions. I look forward to United Airlines’ non-stop flight from Newark (EWR) to Honolulu (HNL) and its lie-flat seats!