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Roni Weiss

Media Kitt

Roni Weiss is influential both via social media and, as the founder of the New York Travel Festival and a travel industry connector, he is followed by an array of travel influencers, both industry and media.

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He has written for Matador, cheapOair.com, ShermansTravel, The Latin Kitchen, Jetsetter Lifestyle, A Luxury Travel Blog, and others, and has frequently worked with destinations/events on sourcing speakers/experts/FAM trip attendees.

He has covered luxury lifestyle from Hawaii to Los Angeles to New York to Zimbabwe.

Roni Weiss has a high level of influence in social media.

This is through a variety of channels:

· HYPERLINK "http://roniweiss.com"Blogging

· Twitter

· Blogging

· Facebook (fan page and private profile)

· Videos (YouTube and Vimeo)

· Photography (Flickr/Instagram/Pinterest)

roniweiss.com is in the top 100,000 of websites in the US, according to HYPERLINK "http://www.alexa.com/search?q=roniweiss.com&r=home_home&p=bigtop"alexa.com.

It also ranks well above the 500,000 mark of sites worldwide.

Roni’s past press trips have included:

Maui, Hawai’i

Newport and Providence, Rhode Island

Québec City and Montreal, Québec

Riviera Maya, Mexico

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda

Event coverage includes:

Los Angeles

· LA Comedy Shorts

· LA Times Travel & Adventure Show

· LA Times Travel Show

· ShowBiz Expo

NYC

· Movie Screenings

· VIP Events

· Meet the Breeds

· NY Times Travel Show

· Occupy Wall Street

· Other Israel Film Festival

Elsewhere

· Amsterdam and Lyon Gay Pride Parades

· Fête des lumières (Lyon)

· Québec Winter Carnival

· Seoul Daeborum Festival

Its audience is predominantly 25-34, with a large portion of them being childless, college-educated and high income.(Top stats via alexa.com, bottom via quantcast.com)

Twitter

Roni has over 7,500 Twitter followers and helps organize Travel Talk on Twitter (#TTOT), the largest Twitter Travel chat. The #TTOT hashtag receives over tens one billion of millions of impressions per monthon the hashtag every week. He also co-organizes #Africhat, which focuses on travel to and within Africa.

Via his influencer connections, Through his Twitter contacts, Roni has the ability to personally reach over 130,000 people accounts via one tweet.

(via crowdbooster.com)

Facebook

On his Facebook fan page, Roni has around 800 Likes.

Aa highly engaged audience, made up of mostly 25-34 year olds with a fairly even split on gender, mostly English-speaking, with distribution in New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and London.

On his Facebook profile, Roni has over 1,around 1,000000 friends.

who are Ppersonal contacts, mostly from off-line interactions/friendships who highly engage with what he does.

(While there is overlap between the two, less than half of the Likes are also Facebook friends.)

Videography

YouTube

1Over 20047 videos. 192222 Subscribers. Nearly Over 8540,,5000 views.

Mostly male, 3545-54, American, British and Canadian.

Vimeo

Nearly Over 13030000 views on 46 total39 videos.

Photography

Instagram

674 followers.

Consistent ♥s (over 5,400) and comments (over 700).

Flickr

Nearly 350,000 views.

Pinterest

500 followers.

Flickr

Nearly 100,000 picture views.

Pinterest

Growing presence. 176 followers.

Biography

Roni Weiss was born in Oceanside, Long Island, New York in 1983. He grew up in Snohomish County, Washington (north of Seattle). At the age of 10, Roni began attending Edmonds Community College, receiving an Associate’s Degree with Honors in 1996 at the age of 12. Roni graduated from Lynnwood High School in 1999 at the age of 15. From 1999-2002, he attended the University of Washington, graduating with double degrees in English (with a Literature emphasis) and Drama.

Starting in 2004, Roni began what became a series of global trips. Over the course of less than a year in 2007-2008, Roni visited 6 continents. He taught English in Italy, Taiwan, France and Chile and has been to 70+ countries, including every country in Europe.

Roni founded RW Social, which provides event management, content creation, and marketing/social media consulting services. He is a cofounder of Destination Accelerator, Travel Talk On Twitter (#TTOT), the world’s biggest Twitter travel chat, receiving nearly a billion impressions a month, and #Africhat, which focuses on travel to and within Africa.

RW Social manages Travel Festivals International, a worldwide network of events for tech-savvy, immersive travelers, including the New York Travel Festival, which is currently revving up for its 5th year.

Roni is available for public speaking, panels and interviews on travel and social media.

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