Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler's Guide to Getting More for Less

by Tim Leffel

Overview

Not another collection of checklists or tips on coupons or promotions, this practical guide teaches travelers — novice or seasoned — how to take advantage of travel opportunities by avoiding the typical tourist mentality. Author Tim Leffel shows readers how to bypass the traps that drive up expenses and find the best value, whether as a young backpacker or a wealthy retiree. Drawing on his own extensive experience (including three yearlong trips around the globe as well as his experience as an industry insider), the author also covers what steps to take and what resources to use to save money on travel and how to travel better — or more often — on a smaller budget. A dozen other notable travel writers and subject matter experts contribute sidebars on specific ways to save.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609520519
Publisher:	Travelers' Tales Guides, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/23/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	486 KB

About the Author

Tim Leffel is frequently quoted in the media as a value travel expert, having appeared multiple times in USA Today, MSN Money, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, and the Boston Globe. He is an active freelance writer who is a regular contributor to Transitions Abroad, The St. Petersburg Times, International Living, and several travel web sites, including PerceptiveTravel.com, where he is editor.

He will be featured in a Spring ’06 article in Best Life and a travel supplement for Budget Style, with many sure to follow by release date. He has also reviewed close to 500 upscale hotels in 14 countries for a travel trade publication, giving him unique insight into the workings of the travel industry.

Tim Leffel’s first book, The World’s Cheapest Destinations (Booklocker, 1591132495), became a budget travel classic after its release at the end of 2002, selling almost solely through the Internet. A second edition will be released in March ’06 and an agent will be pitching it to international distributors. Leffel is the co-author of Hip-Hop Inc.( 1560257326), to be released in March 2006 by Thunder’s Mouth Press, a division of Avalon. He has been a ghostwriter on five business titles, including Steven S. Little’s The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth (0471707600), the #2 title of 2005 at bulk seller 800-CEO-Read and a title now in its third printing.