Noelle Alejandra Salmi is an award-winning journalist and author. She covers travel, culture, and  sustainability.

Noelle writes for Travel + Leisure, AFAR, Monocle, and airline, cruise, and hotel magazines. Noelle was previously Outdoor Editor at Matador Network, and has also written for USA Today, Emerging Markets, Jornal do Brasil, Take the Family, ParentCo, and WorldTraveler. She was sole author of several Frommer's guidebooks and co-author of a Monocle guidebook.

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Noelle is an analyst about travel and other news for Monocle 24 Radio's The Globalist and The Briefing, and covered the 2026 Winter Olympics for Monocle in Milan. She also wrote published articles for the Olympic News Service and Associated Press, reporting from North American and Europe.

Noelle earned a BA at Stanford University and a Masters degree at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Noelle has lived on four continents and visited over 60 countries. She speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.