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October 23, 2009

 
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Peter Greenberg
America’s Travel Expert

Peter Greenberg is America’s most recognized, honored, and respected front-line travel news journalist. An Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and producer, Greenberg is the consummate insider when it comes to reporting the travel business as news. Travel Weekly recently named him one of the most influential people in the travel industry, along with Al Gore, Bill Marriott and Richard Branson.

He is host of the nationally syndicated Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio show, broadcast on more than 150 stations and Sirius/XM radio.  His other current titles include Travel Editor at Large for AARP, Contributing Editor for Men’s Health magazine, and contributor to The New Yorker, Parade, ForbesTraveler.com and MSN.com.  He is also a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The View, as well as on CNN News and CBS.

Greenberg’s latest book Tough Times, Great Travels, offers his expert advice and insight on how to travel efficiently – and well – during tough economic times. His other books include the New York Times best-sellers; Don’t Go There! The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World; The Traveler’s Diet: Eating Right and Staying Fit on the Road; and Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective.

Greenberg began his career in journalism as West Coast Correspondent for Newsweek. He was the principal reporter of many major news stories for the magazine, including cover articles on Howard Hughes, Patty Hearst, Gary Gilmore, aviation safety, and organized crime. In 1988, Greenberg became the travel correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America, and in 1995, moved to NBC as the Travel Editor for the Today show / CNBC / MSNBC.  He also served as Chief Correspondent for the Travel Channel from 1998 to 2005.

Greenberg won a national Emmy Award for best investigative reporting for his ABC 20/20 special, “What Happened to the Children?” a report about the last orphan flight out of Vietnam in 1975. He served as vice president of television development for Paramount, where he was instrumental in developing such shows as MacGyver.  Greenberg remains active as a volunteer fireman in New York, and lives in New York, Los Angeles, Bangkok, and most major airports around the world.