Perceptive Travel

About Us

Perceptive Travel is an online travel magazine that is home to interesting and award-winning stories from some of the best travel writers on the planet. It wins top awards on a regular basis and is a staple of "best travel writing" anthologies. Each monthly webzine issue is filled with unique perspectives from around the globe, written by book authors who see beyond the surface. Destinations, books, and music are chosen on the whim of the writer and editor, not selected based on what tourism board, publishing company, or hotel chain is spending the most on advertising. Come here for authentic travel tales about interesting places, not for top-10 lists and tourism bureau advertorials.

We try to put out great stories without annoying you to death along the way. (Though if you want to click on the banners or text ads that interest you to keep the hosting bill paid, a few editors and travel writers will silently bow down in gratitude.)

The editor spearheading this project is Tim Leffel, author of The World's Cheapest Destinations and Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune, plus the co-author of Traveler's Tool Kit: Mexico and Central America. He has contributed to dozens of magazines and newspapers over a 18-year period. You can see regular rants on his popular Cheapest Destinations travel blog

Jaime Matthews serves as associate editor. Follow individual writer bios to find out more on them.

If you sign up for our newsletter, once every month we will alert you when the new issue is out and give you a chance to win some cool prizes. The odds are good, so sign up now. No, we won't sell your address to evil spammers.

If you want to advertise with us or are a published book author or anthology editor with ample travel writing experience and would like to contribute (we pay even), see the contact page.

Thanks for popping by!

- Tim Leffel, Editor