--- description: McClanahan is an American journalist based in France. A regular contributor to TheNew York Times, she has reported from more than a dozen countries, writing for publications like TheGuardian, the BBC, and TheWashington Post, and is the author of The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Paige McClanahan ## Paige McClanahan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close McClanahan is an American journalist based in France. A regular contributor to _The_ _New York Times_, she has reported from more than a dozen countries, writing for publications like _The_ _Guardian_, the BBC, and _The_ _Washington Post_, and is the author of [_The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel_](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-New-Tourist/Paige-McClanahan/9781668011775) ## Paige McClanahan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 20, 2024 ### [We've All Become Travel Influencers. It's Ruining the Planet](https://time.com/6989471/travel-influencers-climate-essay/) "People are watching what we’re doing — and it’s shaping how they see the world," writes Paige McCla... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/paige-mcclanahan/","name":"Paige McClanahan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/paige-mcclanahan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/paige-mcclanahan/"},"name":"Paige McClanahan","jobTitle":null,"description":"McClanahan is an American journalist based in France. A regular contributor to TheNew York Times, she has reported from more than a dozen countries, writing for publications like TheGuardian, the BBC, and TheWashington Post, and is the author of The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel","url":"https://time.com/author/paige-mcclanahan/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```