Dave Serino is a travel and tourism industry veteran who has leveraged internet technologies to drive the sales and marketing process for the past 15 years. Prior to founding Gammet Interactive in 2000- which serves clients in all sectors of the travel industry - Dave held sales and marketing positions at resort hotels, convention and visitors bureaus, and a tourism technology company.

In the July of 2009, he developed one of the first tourism focused social media ranking system titled - "How Social is Your DMO?". The study was a comprehensive assessment of the 50 state tourism offices and benchmarked each organization's efforts on several social media platforms.

To-date, Dave has presented educational sessions at more than 75 travel industry conferences. He is a featured presenter in the Certified Destination Management Executive Program (CDME) which is conducted by Purdue University and sponsored by the Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI). He is also the founder of the inaugural Symposium on the Use of Social Media in the Tourism Industry, which will be held in Loudoun County, Virginia, November 17-19, 2010 – www.facebook.com/SoMeTourism. You can follow him on Twitter – www.twitter.com/GammetGuy - Fan on Facebook - www.facebook.com/gammet and read more at - www.DaveSerinoBlogs.com.