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Home to the several, highly-exciting theme parks of Walt Disney World, Universal and Sea World, Orlando is one of the three most heavily-visited touristic locations in North America, which means that it receives tens of millions of visitors each year. Our author of this Easy Guide, Jason Cochran, has written an intensely-opinionated and often controversial guide to Orlando (where not to go, is one of his topics), based on numerous lengthy research trips there. Jason is a major travel journalist and is presently Editor-in-Chief of Frommers.com.
About the Author
Jason Cochran is an award-winning travel journalist, pop historian, and consumer reporter. He was the first person in a quarter century to twice win Guide Book of the Year in the Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers, for his guides to Orlando and London. He has written extensively for the New York Post, Budget Travel (as senior editor) ; Entertainment Weekly; the New York Times and New York Daily News; USA Today; Travel Leisure; Travel Leisure.com; BBC Travel; Concierge.com; Newsweek; City; Frommers.com; Inside.com; Sidewalk.com; the South Florida Sun-Sentinel; and Seasons (Sweden) . He was Executive Editor at AOL Travel and filed popular AOL video segments as Editor-at-Large for WalletPop.com. He originated, produced, and hosted AfterShark, the post-show for Mark Burnett's Shark Tank (ABC) and has been seen as a regular contributor in consumer and travel issues to CBS This Morning, The Early Show, Fox Philly, BBC World, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, the CBC, Good Morning America, and national radio shows including that of Arthur Frommer. He was also awarded Guide Book of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association for his book on London. His writing has been awarded the Golden Pen by the Croatian government and was selected to appear in a permanent exhibit in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and New York University.
