Associate Board of Director Candidate: Joseph Camerota

Joseph Camerota

Marketing Director, Bike Rent NYC

Please describe your experience as a volunteer within or outside the travel community.

Bike Rent NYC donates, and maintains at no cost, the bicycles that are used by the NYPD in Central Park.

Please describe your professional experience in the student travel industry.

Working with travel agencies and receptive tour operators to provide groups and FIT with an official bike tour of Central Park and bike rentals in New York City.

Please describe other professional or personal experience that would benefit you as a Board member.

I have a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film and television production from the University of Southern California.

Please describe why you would like to serve as a Board of Director (Associate).

I think it would be a great opportunity to further immerse myself in my career in tourism.

What do you see as the challenges facing the student travel industry? What can SYTA do to meet those challenges?

A unified, low cost, standardized mobile voucher system would be ideal to organize trade across our industry.