FIYTO President
Mr Jack A Coronna has been active in the Federation of International Youth Travel Organisations since 1978. Mr Coronna has held the elected post of President of FIYTO since 1998. He was the FIYTO Treasurer from 1992-1998, and has served as the FIYTO Conference Chairperson three times: Beijing, China in 1988, Mexico City, Mexico in 1990, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.
Mr Coronna is a co-founder and ex officio board member of IAPA, ALTO, and GWEA.
Mr Coronna is a Barrister at Law and a member of the Inner Temple in London from the University of London. Mr Coronna undertook post graduate studies at the University of Nancy in France.
Mr Coronna's business interests in youth travel are varied and numerous. He is a founder of JAC Travel Ltd (1975), one of the UK's major inbound tour operators; JAC Travel International Ltd (1985), a licensed IATA/ABTA retail travel agency; French Travel Partners (1988), an inbound tour operator in France; Irish Travel Partners (1988), a major inbound/outbound Irish tour operator; and Eurojob Ltd (1985), a small company specialising in recruitment and placement of au pairs and nannies into and out of the UK.
He is a co-founder of NETC Inc (1991), the fourth largest outbound USA high school tour operator, and CAPA Inc (1992), an operator of semester and study abroad programmes for USA colleges operating in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Costa Rica. He is an appointed chairman of Twin Education Training (1995) and Hostelworld.com (2000).
Mr Coronna serves as the Treasurer of BITOA. He is a current board member of the BTA's Travel & Tourism Development and Youth Travel Development committees, and a board member of the ETOA.