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Joseph Rosendo
Born Joseph Rosendo
(1946-09-20) September 20, 1946 (age 70)
Miami, FL
Alma mater UCLA
Occupation Travel Journalist, TV Personality
Spouse(s) Julie Rosendo
Website www.travelscope.net

Joseph Rosendo (born September 20, 1946, Miami, Florida) is an American travel journalist, broadcaster, television personality and public speaker. Since 2007 he has been the executive producer, host, director and writer of the American Public Television series Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope which has aired on PBS and Public Television Stations in the United States and Canada with 117 episodes in distribution. Season 9 was released in the fall of 2016 and Season 10 is slated for an early 2018 release.

Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope has won 42 Telly awards, been nominated for 18 National Daytime Emmy Awards and won six, including 2 personal Emmys for Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel Program category and 2 Emmys for his role as host.

Rosendo published his first travel story in the Los Angeles Times in 1980 and since then has been published in national and regional publications. In addition, he has authored a selection of books and acted as consultant editor on others including Where To Go When and Where To Go When – The Americas for D.K. Eyewitness Travel Guides, a guide to Los Angeles during the 1984 Olympics and a book of short stories entitled, MUSINGS — The Short Happy Pursuit of Pleasure and other Journeys.

Rosendo also hosted Travelscope – a national travel radio show from 1985 until 2009, creating more than a thousand original hour-long shows. In addition to his radio show he produced radio features for, among others, ABC News, Discovery Channel Radio and the Associated Press

Rosendo, presented at the New York Times Travel Show, LifeWorks Erie Expo in Erie, Pennsylvania and the benefit for Books That Build Bridges in Kansas City, Missouri where he spoke on Travel As A Life-Changing Experience.


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