Roger Cox

About

Travel writer known for his knowledge of tennis resorts and camps but whose portfolio also includes general domestic and international travel destinations Specialties: Tennis resorts & camps, skiing, soft adventure, general travel

Experience

• Freelance Travel Journalist at Various Publications
  May 1974 - Mar 2025 · 50 yrs 11 mos

  My years as Tennis magazine's travel and resorts editor and my successful founding of Tennis Resorts Online underpin my reputation as an expert in tennis travel. Now, after selling Tennis Resorts Online, I have refocused my career on freelance travel journalism, intending to add to a portfolio that already contains hundreds of articles.

• Founder at Tennis Resorts Online
  Jan 1999 - May 2023 · 24 yrs 5 mos

  Tennis Resorts Online (www.tennisresortsonline.com), the website I founded in 1999, became the web's leading source of tennis-travel information. I sold it in 2024 to Scott Colebourne, the former CEO of Cliff Drysdale Tennis.

• President at New York Travel Writers Association
  Nov 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• President at Riverside Clay Tennis Association
  Jun 2003 - Jun 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  A non-profit devoted to maintaining the red-clay courts in Riverside Park at 96th Street in New York City.

• Travel & Resorts Editor at Tennis Magazine
  Jan 1986 - Dec 1999 · 14 yrs

  Proposed annual travel editorial calendar and wrote most of the travel features