Edward Hasbrouck is an award-winning author, blogger, journalist, consumer and human rights advocate, and expert in airfares, airline reservations, travel technology, independent international travel, and the rights of travelers.
Edward is the author of the travel how-to and advice books The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World, which was in print for more than 20 years in five editions, and The Practical Nomad Guide to the Online Travel Marketplace. His website and blog include travel advice, consumer advocacy, news analysis, and commentary, including 25 years of his columns about the lessons for real-world travelers of the CBS reality-TV show about travel around the world, “The Amazing Race”.
Edward is the winner of a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for his investigative reporting on the privacy of airline reservations, and a Social Courage Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association “for exemplifying courage and honor in speaking truth to power”. He’s been quoted on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post; interviewed on NPR , “The Savvy Traveler”, and the NBC-TV Today Show; and featured in a BBC travel documentary. He’s spoken at the National Geographic Society, South by Southwest Eco, travel shows, conferences, bookstores, libraries, hostels, colleges, universities, and other events and venues in the U.S. and abroad.
For fifteen years, Edward worked as a travel advisor, technical expert in airline reservations and ticketing, and “travel guru” at an online travel agency specializing in around-the-world airline tickets. Since 2006, he’s been a consultant to the Identity Project (PapersPlease.org), a human rights project focused on freedom of movement and the rights of travelers.
Edward has been invited to testify as an expert witness before the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protection, the Canadian House of Commons, and the European Parliament. He’s been a participant, observer, and reporter on legislative and regulatory debates and lawsuits related to travelers’ rights in the U.S., Canada, the European Union, and at the U.N. Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
Edward is a member of the National Writers Union, the Bay Area Travel Writers, Hostelling International, the National Association of Railway Passengers, the Bay Area Bicycle Coalition, and the National Lawyers Guild.
