
After more than two decades as
travel correspondent for
ABC's Good Morning America
and as Travel Editor for
NBC's Today show,
Peter Greenberg continues to be
America's most recognized,
honored and respected travel
expert.
No other
journalist brings his level of
expertise and extensive
experience to the travel
process. An Emmy Award-winning
investigative reporter and
producer, Peter is the
consummate insider when it comes
to reporting the travel business
as news. Travel Weekly
named Peter one of the most
influential people in the travel
industry, along with Al Gore and
Richard Branson.
He is also
host of the nationally
syndicated Peter Greenberg
Worldwide Radio show,
broadcast each week from a
different remote location around
the world on more than 150
stations, Sirius/XM radio
and Armed Forces Network.
His other
current titles include Travel
Editor at Large for AARP,
Contributing Editor for
Men's Health and
Best Life magazines, and
contributor to The New
Yorker magazine, as well
as a frequent on The Oprah
Winfrey Show and
The View.
Peter was
also the creator, co-executive
producer and host of CNBC's
acclaimed ratings winner “Inside
American Airlines: A Week in the
Life,” and the upcoming “Cruise
Inc: Big Money on the High
Seas.” His investigative work
culminated in the one-hour
NBC Dateline special
entitled “Black Box Mystery: The
Crash of the Concorde,” which
premiered in February 2009,
revealing for the first time
what really happened to Air
France Flight 4590.
Last
November, Rodale
published Don't Go There!
The Travel Detective's Essential
Guide to the Must-Miss Places of
the World, which quickly
became a New York Times
best-seller. His newest book
Tough Times, Great Travels,
offers his expert advice and
insight on how to travel
effectively during tough
economic times. Peter's other
books include the New York
Times best-seller
The Complete Travel Detective
Bible, The Traveler's
Diet: Eating Right and Staying
Fit on the Road, Flight
Crew Confidential, and
Hotel Secrets from the Travel
Detective.
His Web
site, PeterGreenberg.com,
is one of the fastest growing
travel news sites in America.
Peter
produces and co-hosts a series
of one-hour television specials
called “The Royal Tour,”
which feature personal,
one-on-one journeys through
various countries with their
heads of state. To date,
countries have included Jordan
with His Majesty King Abdullah
II, New Zealand with Prime
Minister Helen Clark, Peru with
President Alejandro Toledo, and
Jamaica with Prime Minister P.J.
Patterson. These specials have
been broadcast in the U.S. on
the Travel Channel and
worldwide on the Discovery
Channel. New specials, which
will be broadcast on PBS
in 2009-10, will include the
heads of state of Kenya, Israel
and Costa Rica. He is also
co-executive producing with
Today show anchor Al
Roker a "First Lady Tour" series
featuring the wives of a number
of heads of state for the
Women’s Entertainment Network.
Peter began
his career in journalism as West
Coast Correspondent for
Newsweek, based both in
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
During that time, 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. He also
covered stories ranging from
Bette Midler to Watergate to the
return of American prisoners of
war in Vietnam.
In 1988,
Peter became the travel
correspondent for ABC's
Good Morning America
and in 1995, moved to NBC
as Travel Editor for the
Today show / CNBC / MSNBC.
He also served as Chief
Correspondent for the Travel
Channel from 1998 to 2005.
Peter 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 also
received the prestigious
Distinguished Service Award in
Journalism from the
University of Wisconsin, as well
as the Excellence in
Broadcasting Award from the
Aviation Space Writers
Association of America for
his investigative piece on
Good Morning America
entitled “Planes with a Past.”
Peter
served as vice president of
television development for
Paramount, where he was
instrumental in developing such
shows as MacGyver.
At MGM, he ran the
creative team that developed
thirtysomething for
ABC.
Finally,
Peter trains six times each year
in state-of-the-art aircraft
simulators, and he remains
active as a volunteer fireman in
New York. He lives in New York,
Los Angeles, Bangkok, and most
major airports around the world.
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