Publisher Hopes to Soar With 'Afar'

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NEW YORK It’s a daring — some might say crazy — time to launch a magazine, much less one devoted to travel. So far this year, the category’s ad pages have declined 33.7 percent, per the Mediaweek Monitor.

But entrepreneur-turned-publisher Greg Sullivan thinks that his forthcoming travel magazine Afar can carve out a niche by devoting itself to the experiential traveler. Sullivan, who is bankrolling Afar with $10 million of his own money, is pitching a non-formulaic approach to sight-seeing under the editorship of Susan West (Smithsonian, Health).

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