Jane Lasky is a Los Angeles-based transplanted New Yorker who has journalistically covered the world for the past three decades in newspapers, in magazines, in books, in newsletters, on Internet sites, on television, and on the radio.

She wrote the bi-annual Business Travel News and Advice column for Esquire magazine from 1984 to 1988, and since then has authored the syndicated Business Travel Report column which appears in some 30 newspapers. She has been host of Trips & Tips on the Travel Channel and appears regularly as a travel expert on the lecture circuit and on television, the most memorable of which was when she swapped tipping tips with Oprah in 1994. From 1996 to 2003, she has explored cultural etiquette and has offered travel tips on AOL's international channel sponsored by American Express.

In her travels, Jane survived a slip into quicksand near Nairobi, scouted locations for MTV all over Southeast Asia, and shopped for gold in Dubai Airport in the middle of the night. She once went on a five-day assignment to Hong Kong and stayed just short of three years.

Jane always travels with her pillow, she succumbs to jet lag only when she has to, and she is definitely NOT the accidental tourist!