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, Jen Leo, Ayun Halliday, Bruce Northam, Peter Moore, Wendy Knight, Rory Maclean, and Susan Griffith.

Perceptive Travel garnered two of the four Grand Prizes in the 2006 awards from the North American Travel Journalists Association. One of its stories appeared in the Best Travel Writing 2006 anthology, published by Houghton-Mifflin.

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

On the business side, he previously served as editor of The Journal of Business Strategy Online and does corporate communications writing for American Sentinel University