David Appell

An alumnus of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, David Appell has written and edited for a wide range of magazines, newspapers, new media, and television since 1988. In recent years he has specialized in various forms of travel and lifestyle journalism; among other things, he has been: -On staff at Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Diversion, and HarperCollins' guidebooks division -Executive Editor of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Caribbean Travel & Life, and ShermansTravel.com -Author of travel guidebooks for HarperCollins and John Wiley -Author of numerous articles and material for diverse media outlets, from Travel+Leisure and Consumer Reports to the International Herald Tribune and Spain's El País. David speaks and writes seven languages, all of which he can actually use in his cosmopolitan home base of Miami, Florida.