Susan Raphael, Traveler Extraordinaire

Susan's passion for travel, radio…and talking has all come together at "Let's Travel". Previous to being Host and Executive Producer of "Let's Travel", she was director of public relations / advertising / marketing in the non-profit sector, for the American Cancer Society and the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), as well as working at various PR firms including Ruder & Finn.

While at the Society she won an Emmy for "Sophisticated Lady", an anti-smoking public service announcement; created and produced the "American Cancer Society Radio News Service", a weekly "cancer minute" of interviews with leading cancer researchers and clinicians; was associate producer on various video projects, and directed the Society's Public Awareness Council of Celebrities.

At AFB she won a Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America for a cause-related series of workshop between AFB, the Lipton Company and Helena Rubenstein which we taught blind women to cook and apply make-up. The Gallery section of this Web site contains some of her photographs which she has exhibited at various venues in New York City.







Michael Zufolo, Show Producer & Editor

Michael has been an active player in Media Relations for the past 30 years as Director Advertising, Sales & Marketing, Special Events, Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Trade Shows, Conferences and Conventions with The New York Times, Forbes, WOR Radio, TV Channel 11, Attenzione Magazine, et.al.

He's also a board director for The Caribbean Tourism Organization and The International Immigrant Foundation, and is affiliated with the Municipal Arts Society, Americas Society and the Pacific Travel Association. In all these areas Michael has been able to promote cultural diversity and tourism to the general public. Libra/America, his travel signature, provides travel opportunities to "VIP" travelers and groups worldwide. Let's Travel Radio is an extension of his experiences from all of the above.








Catherine Perebinossoff, Senior Producer

Catherine was born to travel...first traveling when she was barely six weeks old, then traveling to France at the age of three. Since then, she has continued to travel here and abroad, e.g., living and studying in France. Having worked in the financial world, e.g., Citibank and I.D.E.A., marketing FX products, including currency derivatives, she has a keen interest and love of the world, now named the Global Economy, The Global Village.

Her love of the arts reinforces her international and multi-national views. Short of traveling is there a better, a more complete way to experience other cultures than by its arts, especially seeing the interrelationships between the arts, cultures, and countries? Impressionism would not have been Impressionism without photography or Japanese woodcuts, thus East Does Meet West. Presently with "Let's Travel", an Internet Radio Show, thus defying time and distance, and her tailor-made tour and event concern, New York City Tours, she continues to travel far and wide.








Jared Lerner, Senior Webmaster

Jared has always enjoyed designing websites as a hobby ever since he was young, and was definitely excited to start one up from scratch for Let's Travel. He has done other freelance work in the past but rarely has been this involved doing so. And it has definitely been a lot of fun so far!

In May of 2007 Jared graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a second major in Accounting. Out of college he worked as a Software Support Engineer for a financial services company named Sungard on Wall Street. He is currently working as a Professional Services Consultant for Confirmit Inc., one of the leading survey software companies in the world. In his spare time he enjoys updating this site and several others. Feel free to email him at Jared531@gmail.com.

Linda Harris, Senior Sales Associate

Let Talk Radio's Senior Sales Associate, Linda Harris, has held various positions in her professional career. A former art historian who lived in Florence, Italy, Linda, a life-long Italophile, traveled in Italy extensively and speaks fluent Italian.

Her previous responsibilities included: senior trade analyst with the Italian Trade Commission, in New York, marketing coordinator for Alitalia Airlines, and communications consultant/publicist for the The Center for Jewish History and Eredi Pisano' menswear, amongst others. Linda continues to pursue her love of Italian cuisine, travel, and the latest innovations using social media like Twitter.











Barry Goldsmith, Let's Travel's Architectural History/Humor Guru

Professor Barry Goldsmith is America's only professor of both architecture and humor. He is both an architect and an architectural historian who has hosted travel and culture series in both the USA and UK. One of his architecture courses, Great Planned Cities, is being made into his most recent TV series that he is hosting.Goldsmith disseminates knowledge in an entertaining and memorable way. He believes that travel, especially for leisure, should be fun. He has written for many TV shows, from The Joan Rivers Show to the Late Show with David Letterman -- and even comedy for the BBC.

Goldsmith also knows when to be serious -- when he writes his numerous articles on architecture for publications like USA Today, The New York Times and The Jerusalem Post. National, regional and city tourist boards, the experts on tourism to their locales, respect Prof. Goldsmith's knowledge so much that they enlist him to lead press trips on all six continents. Besides teaching at New York University, Prof. Goldsmith has lectured at major museums and universities around the world. He is also a contributing editor to Travel World News.








Tom Parsons, Let's Travel's Travel Deals Guru

By Tom Parsons' own admission, he is nothing more than a regular traveler who wants to save money and help others save. And that he does. Other people collect stamps or precious objects. Parsons collects cheap airfares and discount travel rates, and then he tells everyone about them.

Parsons got his start as a discount travel hound in the late 1970s when he was a traveling corporate executive. He noticed the wide variance in travel fares, even on the same airline flight. Using his natural analytical abilities and some good old sleuthing, Parsons unearthed some breakthrough methods to save dramatically on airfares. Then (of course) he began to tell his co-workers about it. In just fourteen months, Parsons single-handedly reduced the corporation's total travel budge from $2.5 million to $800,000. He was honored with a plaque at the annual meeting and given the title, "The Man Least Likely to Give Up a Travel Buck." Even Herb Kelleher, Former CEO and Founder of Southwest Airlines, called Tom "the best low fare policeman on the beat." That moniker is even more accurate today.

Parsons now appears on over 100 radio and television talk shows each month, dispensing his knowledge of hidden travel deals and fare secrets to audiences of shows ranging from NBC's The Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show to nationally syndicated radio such as Bloomberg Business Radio and the AP Radio Network. While his days are packed, Parsons is still likely to be found chatting with the receptionists and cameramen along the way, giving them advice on an upcoming trip. His interviews have the same popular appeal, lighting up phone lines with every visit. Since 1983, Parsons has become the Ralph Nader of the air. He has established a reputation as the traveler's friend and confidant, someone the average consumer can trust to be fair and honest and always on the consumer's side. His goal is to inform the general public about the truth in the travel industry. And as always, his mission is about saving money.