Doug Jones has been producing travel films since 1968. He was born and raised in Kansas City and graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting. Today he lives in Los Angeles and New York City. His personal travels have taken him around the world and into sixty-eight countries on six continents.
He has produced twenty-two feature-length travel films and has appeared on every important auditorium travelogue-lecture series in the United States and Canada including the National Geographic Society series at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Doug Jones' films have been released on home video and DVD and include "The Great Canadian Train Ride" with over one million copies sold worldwide. He operates an active stock footage business and his material is regularly seen in prime time television shows and national commercials.
In addition to his work in producing travel films, he is an avid pilot having made over sixty coast-to-coast flights in his twin Cessna airplane to show his travelogues in every state of the nation.
He is past president of the International Travel Film Guild and the International Motion Picture and Lecturers Association. He is listed in Who's Who in Entertainment and he was given the "Film Lecturer of the Year" award by the International Platform Association for his outstanding work in the field of travelogue production.