Jim Ferri

About

Jim Ferri is the Editor and Publisher of the popular Never Stop Traveling newsletter and website. He has been reporting on world travel for several decades, beginning his career as a freelance magazine photographer and writer for publications in the U.S. and Europe and later becoming the managing editor of a large U.S. travel magazine. The former Director of Public Relations (US) of Air France, he was also the International Public Relations Director of the Travel and Hotel Division of Cendant, then the world's largest hotel company. In addition, he has also been Senior Vice President of two of the world's largest public relations agencies. He is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Travel and Tourism Section of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). In addition, he is a member of the Panel of Tourism Experts of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). He has been a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of New York University, St. John's University, and Georgetown University, and a keynote speaker at the California Travel Association's national conference. He has traveled the world extensively as both a journalist and marketing executive. However, he also remains a wide-eyed tourist at heart and is known for using his observations of things he has seen along the way to entertain and enlighten anyone who will listen.