Worldwide Correspondents

West Coast Editor

Michael Schoenberger 
West Coast Editor, michael@jaxfax.com
I am a second generation travel industry professional and have spent my entire 35 year career in tourism. My educational background includes a BS Degree for Hotel Administration and a BA degree in History. I’m currently working on a Master Degree in Hospitality Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  During my long career I have worked for hotels, DMC’s, and tour operators as well as having owned various travel companies in Nevada, including a retail travel agency and Nevada’s only airline ticket consolidator. My professional and leisure travels have taken me to over 300 cities and 40 countries worldwide.

Luxury Correspondent

Maxine Albert
Luxury Correspondent, Spa/Wellness Editor luxury@jaxfax.com
Maxine writes the ‘Absolute Luxury’ column for JaxFax, scouting the globe for the new, the hot, the best of the best in ‘experiential luxury’. She has written about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Tahiti’s turquoise lagoons, the ravishing Maldives, maharajahs palaces of India, the great migration in Tanzania’s Serengeti, luxury yachting in the Galapagos, the healing springs of Italy, the top spas in China and Thailand and the best of Paris, among other destinations. Maxine was a lifestyle columnist for Elle, has been featured in Glamour, WW Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Black Book, Global Traveler, Resident Magazine and has appeared on CNN.  In addition to her luxury column for JaxFax, she is a regular contributor to Bella New York Magazine, Bella LA Magazine, The Huffington Post and The Washington Times.

Europe

Monique Burns
Europe
Monique@jaxfax.com Monique has worked as a travel editor and writer for over three decades.  A former Senior Editor at Travel & Leisure magazine, she also worked as Editor-in-Chief of Meeting Destinations, a start-up national magazine for meeting planners, and as Creative Director of  Travellers International tour operators.  Monique has covered Europe from the battlefields and breweries of Flanders to the spellbinding Norwegian Coast and Welsh countryside, and from the Mediterranean splendor of France, Italy and Greece to Turkey’s storied ruins.  She has freelanced for American Express Publishing and Fodor’s Travel Guides, and contributes regularly to such online publications as Travel Market Report, Everett Potter’s Travel Report and Travel Squire.com

Europe

Maria Lisella
Europe
New York-based Maria Lisella counts more than 25 years of reporting about the travel industry for the travel trade. Her writing has appeared in the Dubai-based Destinations of the World, Travel Agent Magazine, and Jax Fax, the Boston Herald, German Life, the New York Daily News, and Travel & Leisure. A former columnist for the Newark Star Ledger and Diversion magazine, her corporate client list includes American Express, the European Travel Commission, Pestana Hotels & Resorts, among others.

Marian Goldberg 
mariangoldberg@jaxfax.com
Marian has traveled extensively in Asia and previously served for 11 years as the PR Manager for the Japan National Tourism Organization in the Americas. Prior to joining JNTO, Marian headed the editorial team at Personal Travel Technologies, worked as a Production Researcher and then a Producer at the Travel Channel. She moved on from the Travel Channel to become Marketing Supervisor at Trans World Airlines and was also a founding editor of the Educated Traveler newsletter , contributing editor to Transitions Abroad magazine, and the author of the Americas volume of the World Tourism Directory. Marian Goldberg has been writing about travel since 1987, when, while a graduate student in travel and tourism management, she was editor of the Travel & Tourism Research Association’s New York Chapter newsletter. She has also contributed to publications in Asia and Australia, and was a 2009 judge of the Seoul Tourism Awards in Seoul, Korea.

Africa and Middle East

Lisa Loverro
Africa & the Middle East
Lisa’s passion for travel has led her around the globe. Whether on safari in Africa, diving in Australia or 4-wheel driving through the Arabian Desert, her thirst for adventure is never-ending. Lisa has over ten years’ experience as a contributor for both consumer and trade publications. She joins JAX FAX as our Middle East and Africa Correspondent

Been There Haven’t Done That

Professor Barry Goldsmith
Been There Haven’t Done That
Prof. Barry Goldsmith is a professor of architecture and humor who has been to over 100 countries and has lectured on architecture, travel and culture in many of them. Prof. Goldsmith has written comedy for television including THE JOAN RIVERS SHOW. He leads press trips for the experts: Government tourist boards, airlines and international hotel chains. Prof. Goldsmith has appeared on television around the world. He leads commercial tours based on his television series.

Margery Weinstein

Margery Weinstein has been a worldwide correspondent for JAX FAX since 2011. She is based in New York City and often attends industry events on behalf of JAX FAX. Her passion for travel is unparalleled and she is always up for an adventure.

Contributing Editors

Geri Bain
Christopher Cooke
Harriet Edleson
Evelyn Kanter
Karen Loftus
Margery Weinstein
Rita Cook
Robert Selwitz