Tim Leffel is Editor of Perceptive Travel, an award-winning web site for independent travelers with open senses and open minds. It is home to the best travel stories from authors on the move. Perceptive Travel has featured writing from the likes of Rolf Potts, Jeff Greenwald, Ayun Halliday, Bruce Northam, Peter Moore, Rory Maclean, Edward Readicker-Henderson, and Amy Rosen.

Perceptive Travel has won a slew of awards, including two of the four Grand Prizes from the North American Travel Journalists Association after its first full year, as well as several awards in later years and nods from the Solas Awards. Its contributors have also been recognized for outstanding work by institutions in Canada and the UK. Perceptive Travel has repeatedly appeared in the Best Travel Writing and Best American Travel Writing anthologies.

Tim Leffel is also the publisher of two blogs:
The Cheapest Destinations blog
Practical Travel Gear

He also does editorial work applying his expertise in the Americas to Luxury Latin America.

On the business side, he previously served as editor of The Journal of Business Strategy Online.