Travel Secrets
Overview
Travel Secrets is a bimonthly English-language travel magazine published from New Delhi, Delhi. It is built around a simple, practical promise: to tell readers how to travel, not only where to travel. Its company profile describes it as India's first how-to travel magazine, serving both the Indian travel industry and frequent travellers. That dual address gives the magazine its character. It speaks to professionals who sell and shape journeys, and at the same time to individual readers who plan their own trips and want advice they can actually use before they leave home.
The magazine's very name explains its editorial method. A travel secret, in its pages, is not a piece of gossip but a piece of useful knowledge: a smarter way to plan, a place that rewards those who look beyond the obvious, a tip offered by someone who has been there. Destination features, insider guidance and practical how-to instruction are combined in one publication, so that inspiration and information arrive together rather than in separate magazines.
A Magazine Built Around How-To Travel
Many travel magazines concentrate on beautiful destinations and leave the practical work to the reader. Travel Secrets positioned itself differently from the start. Its stated focus on how-to guidance means that articles are expected to answer the questions a traveller asks while planning: how to reach a place, how to make the most of limited days, how to eat, stay and move around well, and how to avoid the mistakes that waste money and time. The emphasis is on usable detail rather than on distant admiration.
This positioning also explains why the magazine could address the travel trade without becoming a trade journal. Travel professionals need exactly the same ground-level knowledge as serious travellers, only packaged for work. By keeping its guidance concrete and experience-based, Travel Secrets made its pages relevant to agents, tour planners and hospitality readers while remaining readable for the independent traveller at home in New Delhi or anywhere else in India.
The Editor and Publisher: Shubhra Krishan
The central figure behind Travel Secrets is Shubhra Krishan, who is identified by BookMyShow as the magazine's editor and publisher. Publisher profiles from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House India describe her as a seasoned television and print journalist who, after a long run with leading lifestyle publications, turned publisher with Travel Secrets. Penguin's author note puts the sequence plainly: after working with Cosmopolitan and Femina, she turned publisher with this magazine, working from New Delhi.
Krishan's background matters to the magazine's tone. Other profiles record more than two decades in journalism, with work for Femina, Cosmopolitan and DNA, and writing for publications including Condé Nast Traveller in the UK and India, Yoga Journal in the USA, The Asian Age and The Sunday Express. She is also the author of several books on food and well-being, published in the USA and India. A travel magazine edited by a lifestyle journalist and food writer naturally treats food, well-being and the human texture of a place as part of travel, not as decoration added afterwards.
Early Issues and Editorial Voice
Because Travel Secrets is a small, editor-led publication, some of the clearest evidence of its early voice comes from the travel writing community it covered. The travel blog Travel Tales from India and Abroad recorded being featured in the magazine's second issue, when editor Shubhra Krishan approached its writer for an interview conducted by email. The same issue carried a short piece on Mangalajodi in Odisha, a wetland destination the blogger had visited with friends, showing how quickly the magazine was mixing traveller interviews with lesser-known Indian destinations.
That combination became a recognisable part of the magazine's approach. Rather than relying only on famous landmarks, Travel Secrets made room for working travellers, bloggers and contributors to explain how a journey actually felt and functioned. A short piece on a place such as Mangalajodi sits comfortably beside broader destination coverage because the magazine's test is not celebrity but usefulness: does the article help the next traveller go there, understand it and enjoy it more fully?
What Readers Find Inside
The magazine offers practical how-to guidance, destination features and insider tips for travellers. In practice that means articles that break a journey into decisions: where to base oneself, what to prioritise, which local experiences are worth seeking out and what a visitor should know before arriving. Its correspondents and contributors are spread across the world, according to its company profile, which allows the magazine to bring in on-the-ground perspectives rather than rewriting the same familiar destination notes from a desk in Delhi.
Food and local culture run through this coverage naturally, reflecting the editor's own writing interests. Travel Secrets treats restaurants, markets, festivals and everyday encounters as essential travel intelligence. For Indian readers planning foreign trips, and for readers exploring India itself, the magazine's value lies in joining these details into a plan: inspiration first, then the steps needed to turn that inspiration into a booked, workable and enjoyable journey.
Contributors Across the World
Travel Secrets describes itself as having correspondents and contributors across the world who excite the reader to travel. That network is important for a bimonthly magazine based in one city. New Delhi is its editorial home, but its subject is movement, so its writing has to come from elsewhere: from destinations in India, from cities abroad and from travellers in transit between the two. The contributor model also suits the how-to format, because practical advice is most credible when it comes from someone who has recently made the journey being described.
The magazine has also been open to the wider community of travel writers around it. Its early interview with an Indian travel blogger, at a time when travel blogging was still establishing itself in India, showed an editor willing to treat independent online writers as legitimate voices in print. For readers, that openness widened the magazine's range of experience; for writers, Travel Secrets became a place where a personal journey, properly reported, could find a print audience.
Beyond the Pages: Workshops and Talks
Travel Secrets extended its work beyond print through travel writing education. In January 2013, So Delhi and Travel Secrets held a two-day travel writing workshop with Shubhra Krishan in Delhi. Reports of the workshop in DU Beat, the Delhi University student newspaper, describe sessions on what travel writing is, what a travel writer's job involves, how to pitch a letter to an editor and how to judge one's own aptitude for the field, followed by writing exercises that Krishan read and edited with participants.
The workshop's second day concentrated on craft, including the use of imagery in writing, and Krishan also spoke about making a curriculum vitae more impressive for a career in travel writing. In March 2013 she gave a talk titled Hidden Europe at the Travelhood Café in Gurgaon, drawing on her travels to discuss less familiar corners of Europe. Together, these events show Travel Secrets acting as a small centre of travel-writing culture in the Delhi region, not simply as a title that appeared on newsstands every two months.
Frequency, Format and Audience
Travel Secrets is a bimonthly magazine, appearing every two months in English. The bimonthly rhythm suits long-form travel guidance: destinations do not change as fast as news, and a how-to article can remain useful for several seasons. Readers can keep an issue as a planning reference rather than treating it as disposable reading, and the interval between issues gives the small editorial team time to gather contributions from its dispersed network of writers and correspondents.
Its audience is best understood as two overlapping groups. The first is the Indian travel industry, which its company profile names explicitly. The second is frequent travellers: readers who travel often enough to value accumulated know-how. Krishan's own profile, of meeting people and collecting stories for the magazine while travelling, captures the intended relationship between the two groups. The professional and the enthusiast meet in the same reader: someone for whom travel is both work and pleasure.
Digital Presence and How to Read It
The magazine's official website is travelsecretsmag.com, which serves as its digital home alongside the print edition. Through the website and the editor's own online presence, prospective contributors and partners can reach the magazine; Shubhra Krishan's website notes that students and writers are welcome to get in touch about internships and writing opportunities, and that she is open to collaborations, partnerships, familiarisation tours and reviews for Travel Secrets. That openness to pitches matches the contributor-led character of the magazine itself.
Listings for the magazine as an employer, including its Internshala company profile, place it in Delhi in the media and entertainment industry, with hiring activity recorded from 2014. For readers, the practical routes to Travel Secrets remain its print issues, its website and the events and workshops held in its name. As a directory entry, it stands as a New Delhi travel title with a distinct and verifiable identity: an editor-publisher with a long lifestyle journalism career, a network of contributors across the world, and a founding idea that has stayed constant.
Its Place in Indian Travel Media
Indian travel publishing includes large international brands, airline magazines and trade papers. Travel Secrets occupies a more personal niche within that field. It was not built as a licensed edition of a foreign title or as a purely commercial trade sheet, but as an independent, editor-led magazine whose authority comes from experience: the editor's own decades in lifestyle journalism and the first-hand accounts of its contributors. Its claim to be India's first how-to travel magazine expresses that difference in a single line.
For worldnm.com readers, Travel Secrets is best understood as a practical travel companion in magazine form. Published from New Delhi in English, appearing bimonthly, and shaped by Shubhra Krishan's background in food, well-being and lifestyle writing, it turns the secrets of experienced travellers into guidance that new travellers can use. That is the thread connecting its destination features, its blogger interviews, its Delhi workshops and its talks: travel knowledge, gathered by people who travel, and passed on in a form that helps others travel better.
