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- Travel Holiday was an American magazine title born in 1977 when the publisher of Travel acquired Holiday magazine and merged the titles. The magazine ceased publication in 2003. Travel Holiday had its origins in The Four-Track News, a creation of New York Central railroad publicist George H. Daniels, and published by the railroad from 1901 to 1906. As Daniels approached retirement, The Four-Track News became The Travel Magazine in a large format under a new publisher, Travel Bureau, Inc. In 1910, Travel Bureau, Inc. folded and its sole product was taken over by the McBride publishing house which soon shortened its title to Travel. The successful promoter of House and Garden, McBride promised a worldwide scope and more photography in a magazine directed both at those who could afford to travel and those who could not. In the 1920s and '30s, Travel was noted for the artwork commissioned for its covers. McBride went bankrupt in 1948 and the title was bought by Long Island publisher Herman W. Shane, who added to it a tagline: Travel: the magazine that roams the globe. Management eventually passed to his son, Sheldon R. Shane, and the revived title was a success in the prosperous postwar years. In 1977, Sheldon Shane acquired Holiday from the struggling Curtis Publishing Company. Holiday was an established, rival travel magazine that featured upscale art design and commissioned famous authors to write its stories.(Main article: Holiday (magazine))
At the time of the $1.2M sale, Holiday had a circulation of 368,000, Travel 592,368. Shane merged the titles to create Travel Holiday, and his son, Scott E. Shane, soon came on as editor. It was considered a prestigious magazine that restaurants vied to get published in its pages as an awarded business of note. In 1986, Shane sold Travel Holiday to the Reader's Digest Association and became a part of their travel series. At the time the magazine had a monthly circulation of 778,000. In 1996, Reader's Digest sold the magazine to Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., a French media firm. Hachette Filipacchi discontinued the magazine in 2003 due to low advertising revenue. Until the Shanes left management in 1989, Travel Holiday kept the ‘roam the globe’ tagline, maintained the volume number sequence begun with The Four-Track News, and proclaimed continuous publication since 1901. (en)
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