Travel Specialist Expert

David Appell

Now based in Miami, Florida after many years living in New York and Europe, David Appell has written and edited for a wide range of magazine, newspaper, new media, and television since 1988. In recent years he has specialized in various forms of travel and lifestyle journalism, including stints at Cond Nast Traveler, GQ, Diversion, and HarperCollins' guidebooks division; and as Executive Editor of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel; authoring a guidebook for HarperCollins and a series of specialty foreign-language phrase books; and writing articles for diverse media outlets, from Travel+Leisure and Consumer Reports to the International Herald Tribune and Spain's El Pa s. He speaks and writes seven languages.