Martinique Lewis

Award-Winning Diversity Travel Consultant at Martinique Lewis
Martinique is an award-winning Diversity travel consultant, President of the Black Travel Alliance and author of The ABC Travel Greenbook, advisory board member for Conde Nast Traveler. Trusted amongst her peers as a “connector’’ she is always connecting the dots to ensure the travel industry is mindful of diversity, not just as a “Buzz word’’ but as an action that produces results. Her mission is to change the face of tourism with more inclusivity so that all travelers feel represented.

Keith Henry

President & CEO at ITAC
Keith Henry is the President and CEO of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) and the Director of Tourism HR Canada. Keith is recognized across the country as one of the leaders in Indigenous tourism. He has led many new initiatives and contributions to the development of national standards on market readiness and authenticity, as well as multiple research projects on the economic progress of indigenous tourism.

John De Fries

President & CEO at Hawaii Tourism Authority
John De Fries leads the State of Hawaii’s pivot toward regenerative tourism, which seeks to balance the economics of tourism with the well-being of local communities and natural resources. Born in Waikīkī, De Fries was raised by family elders steeped in Hawaiian culture. He has five decades of professional experience in tourism and resort development.

Anniina Sandberg

Founder at Visit Natives
Anniina Sandberg is the founder of Visit Natives, a travel agency that promotes sustainable indigenous tourism with respect for local culture and the environment. Anniina has an MA in African Studies and has lived in Tanzania among the Maasai. Her company offers authentic Lapland tours with a blend of traditional and modern Sami culture.

Charlie Cotton

Founder at Ecollective
As the founder of Ecollective, Charlie helps companies measure and reduce their carbon footprint. His career started in travel before he turned my hand to sustainability. Frustrated at a lack of action, Charlie wanted to make it easier for businesses to make quantifiable action on the climate crisis.

Mitch Bach

Founder at TripSchool
Mitch Bach is the CEO & Co-Founder of TripSchool, a travel business accelerator and professional training school focused on the tourism industry. He's also a Partner at Tourpreneur, a global membership community of 5,000+ tour operators. Mitch also co-founded the Tourism Pathways Project, a non-profit coalition of leading travel companies trying to diversify tour industry jobs, and an international consultant and speaker working with companies like Disney, Meta, Globus, and The Travel Corporation, with a focus on storytelling and experience design. He lives in New York City.

Roslyn Ranse

Founder at Travel Agent Achievers
With her experience in Sales and Marketing, Operations, and Client relationship building, Roslyn confidently educates & mentors others to grow their businesses. Travel Agent Achievers was born out of her passion to share her knowledge and expertise with her travel industry peers who know how to 'book travel' but also want to have the 'back end' of their business run as smoothly as their clients' travels.

Giles Hawke

CEO at Cosmos Tours
Giles has been in the travel industry for 30 years, having started as a hotel night porter and then a resort representative and a range of overseas roles, before becoming sales director at Crystal holidays on his return to the UK. A brief stint as commercial director at highlife breaks was followed by 11 years with Carnival UK, 3 years at MSC Cruises and he has been CEO at Cosmos Tours ltd for the last 6 years. He also heads up Globus Family of Brands' global sustainability efforts. Giles also sits on the CLIA executive committee, the ATAS exec committee, and the ABTA membership committee and has recently become the chair of the institute of customer service.

Charles Sylvia

Vice President of Industry and Trade Relations at CLIA
With more than 21 years of experience in cruise marketing and sales, Charles Sylvie now serves as Vice President of Membership for Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). An avid cruiser, with more than 70 sailings under his belt, Sylvia’s passion resides in helping others realize their full potential and in using his creativity and innovative spirit to disrupt convention and discover new opportunities for growth.

Nadine Pinto

Global Sustainability Manager at TreadRight and The Travel Corporation
Nadine Pinto is the Global Sustainability Manager for TreadRight and The Travel Corporation (TTC), a family of 40 travel brands operating worldwide. Nadine’s primary focus is implementing TTC’s sustainability strategy, How We Tread Right, including its efforts to address climate change through the group’s Climate Action Plan. Nadine has been recognized by Corporate Knights as a Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leader in Canada.

Sher Khan

Industry Lead at Google
Sher has 18 years of experience in leadership roles across Business Development and Sales. Currently, he leads Google's Sales Team for Austria. He has been with Google for over 14 years in various leadership positions in Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and the US. Sher is a Travel industry expert having spent five years working closely on Google's Hotels, Flights and Tours, and Activities products.

Thomas Boele

Regional Vice President of Solutions Engineering (EMEA) at Twilio
As the Regional Vice President of Solutions Engineering (EMEA) at Twilio, Thomas has been scaling and growing the whole EMEA Solutions Engineering team for the market leader in the fast-growing communications platform as a service (CPaaS) and digital customer engagement markets. Prior to that, he held similar positions at High-Tech companies like Cohesity, HPE/SimpliVity, Riverbed, and 3Com, as well as systems engineering and marketing leadership roles at e. G. NetApp, and Cisco.

Bill Coyle

Vice President of Agent Engagement at KHM Travel Group
Bill Coyle has become an essential travel industry resource with over 30 years of experience leading his own agency, serving on advisory boards, and advocating for travel advisors on a national level. His experience empowers and educates KHM Travel Group’s advisors. Bill brings a spirited passion for travel in all his professional endeavors and continues to book travel for his longtime clients.

Shannon Cunningham

Director of Membership at Gifted Travel Network
Shannon has been in the travel industry for 20+ years. Her experience goes as far back as delivering airline tickets for a travel agency to working as a corporate travel manager and then as a leisure travel manager. Today, she helps travel advisors to become a part of the Gifted Travel Network.

Ben Ittensohn

Director of Global Sales at Explore!
Ben is Director of Global Sales at Explore! with over 15 years of travel industry experience. Ben is excited by the dynamic forces within the industry that, when influenced strategically, can deliver maximum growth, revenue, profitability, and market position. Ben is an energetic and adaptable leader who lays a platform for short and long-term growth through concentrated team effort, creativity, commitment, and initiative. Commercially focused with a proven track record of growing profitability, Ben is an inspiring leader who takes great satisfaction in aiding the development of individuals and teams.

Brian Young

Managing Director at G Adventures
With over 30 years of experience, Young’s career has taken him from a bright-eyed club rep for Club 18-30 to Managing Director of GAdventures across the EMEA region. Passionate about raising the profile and changing perceptions around the touring and adventure sector, Young took on the role of Chairman at ATAS (Association of Touring and Adventure Suppliers) in 2020. He has represented the sector, speaking at numerous industry events including World Travel Market in London and ITB in Berlin.

Natasha Lawrence

Commercial and Product Development Director at Contiki
Natasha is a travel executive with diverse experience across the sector, in Hotels, Hospitality, and Tour Operating. Since 2018, she transitioned across to Tour Operating where she has been heading up digital transformation and product transformation for the youth brand Contiki. Her work includes leading the business strategy to pivot to a consumer-facing brand, driving the global direction of product development, implementing pricing and revenue management systems, and sitting on the steering committee on sustainability.

Malcolm Roughead

Chief Executive at Visit Scotland
Malcolm has been Chief Executive of VisitScotland since September 2010, having joined in 2001 as Director of Marketing and receiving an OBE in 2005 for services to tourism. A graduate in Modern Languages from the University of Glasgow, his experience covers senior international and UK-based marketing roles and under his leadership, VisitScotland was on the drafting committee of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.

Dan Christian

Founding CMO at DHARMA
Dan Christian is a travel industry veteran with over 20 years of experience with TTC (Contiki, Trafalgar, Insight Vacations), G Adventures, and Lonely Planet. Dan is the Founding CMO at DHARMA which builds Original travel brands such as Spirited Stories and Looking FC and the Managing Director for the Acceleration Team which enables companies to rapidly scale their digital transformations. He’s an avid traveler (@dctrips) and an active industry advisor and keynote speaker.

Graeme Jackson

Head of Strategic Partnerships at The Travel Foundation
Graeme is the Head of Partnerships for the leading global tourism charity, the Travel Foundation. Based out of the Travel Foundation’s headquarters in Bristol, UK, he is responsible for developing and managing international partnerships with destinations, businesses, development agencies, and donors to strengthen the organization’s global work to improve the impacts of tourism on communities and the environment in destinations.

Steve Johnson-Stevenson

Marketing Manager at Tourism Authority of Thailand (New York)
Steve is the Marketing Manager for the Tourism Authority of Thailand, New York office. Thanks to his work, Thailand's positioning amongst industry consortiums has been raised to a top luxury tourism destination. Steve was also the lead architect in formalizing Thailand's outreach to the LGBTQ+ travel community.

Matt Skallerud

President at Pink Media
Matt Skallerud has been in the LGBTQ+ digital space for over 25 years, first with GayWired.com and SheWired.com, and now with Pink Media and the #ILoveGay network, helping companies reach their targeted LGBTQ+ demographic.

Jon Bailey

Founder at 2DadsWithBaggage.com
Jon Bailey is the founder of 2DadsWithBaggage.com and writes about LGBTQ+, family, and luxury travel for a variety of outlets including msn.com, The Points Guy, NationalGeographic.com, and more. Along with his husband Triton and their daughters Sophia and Ava, he chronicles their daily adventures raising two daughters in the modern world. Their travels, recipes, stories, and more are shared with honesty, authenticity, and a little bit of humor, with an effort to help the world be a better place by increasing understanding of one another.

Aurélie Debusschère

Europe Agent of the World at WINTA
Active human rights defender and indigenous tourism specialist since 2008, Aurélie Debusschère has been involved in extended initiatives shaping virtuous indigenous tourism from the grassroots level (Native Immersion) to international institutions (World Indigenous Tourism Alliance, UN Geneva).

Jonathan Lucas

Public Relations Coordinator at Osaka's Convention & Tourism Bureau
Based in Japan, Jonathan is a public relations coordinator for the Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau. Originally from Virginia, USA, he was inspired to contribute back to Osaka after studying abroad there and has been working on behalf of the city for more than three years in public relations, convention sales, and for the Visit Gay Osaka initiative.

Marion Payr

Founder of thetravelblog.at
Based in Austria, Marion is a travel photographer, storyteller, and the founder of thetravelblog.at. Believing that an equal representation of voices & images supports a vision of a united world in the spirit of togetherness, Marion dedicates much of her career to female empowerment. She also dedicated much of her work to the art of traveling, focusing on wildlife conservation and ethical tourism in Africa - with a special focus on socially conscious projects and women empowerment.

Justin Barnette

Head of Marketing & Communications North America at South African Tourism
Justin Barnette is an LGBTQ+ tourism advocate and the Head of Marketing and Communications for South African Tourism North America, where he and the New York-based team collaborate with trade, media, and stakeholders to inspire US and Canadian business and leisure travelers to visit South Africa.

Travis Pittman

Co-Founder & CEO at TourRadar
Travis is an Australian who has lived in Europe for the past 15 years and has called Vienna home for the past 12 years. Travis co-founded TourRadar with his brother Shawn in 2010 with the vision of democratizing adventure tourism, providing a positive impact on people and the planet. Under his leadership, TourRadar has grown into a large, diverse team from 40+ nationalities and is the leading Adventure Booking Platform, with 50,000+ adventures in 160+ countries.

Clemens Grave

Director of Product at TourRadar
Clemens Grave is the Director of Product at TourRadar and is responsible for TourRadar's overall product strategy and development. Clemens joined TourRadar in 2019 as a product manager and has since then successfully led initiatives such as Tailor-Made & Private Adventures, Credit for Future Tours, and most recently co-created TourRadar for Travel Agents. Prior to joining TourRadar, Clemens founded and successfully led a mobile retail banking company in the US with a special focus on financial literacy for youth.

Nico Trieb

Chief Operating Officer at TourRadar
Nicholas helped TourRadar achieve its $50m Series C investment and grew the company to 200+ people across 3 offices worldwide. He has a Master in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna and spent a year in India working for the 4th-largest Indian IT consulting firm. Nicholas also co-founded tripwolf and later sold it to a renowned German publishing house.

Christian Wolters

Chief Marketing Officer at TourRadar
Christian launched the North American office in Toronto. With over two decades of experience in sales, marketing, and business development, he has held senior roles at Harley Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, and The Intrepid Group. In his free time, Christian likes to take his son to hockey games and work on Soko Distribution, the thriving business that he co-founded.

Kimberly Stirdivant Wason

Director of Partnerships at TourRadar
Kimberly is a travel industry veteran with 15 years of experience working with brands such as Tourism Australia, TripAdvisor, and Free2Move. As the Director of Partnerships for TourRadar, she helps connect DMOs and B2B partners to TourRadar's technology solutions and also leads the team in conceptualizing and delivering high-impact digital marketing campaigns.

Lia Costa

Analytics Lead at TourRadar
Lia is an expert in uncovering customer insights and promoting data-driven decisions across TourRadar’s various departments. Recently involved in the roll-out of a new feature, she helped product managers understand and assess a completely new customer journey. In her free time, Lia enjoys playing paddle tennis and relaxing in the evening with a port and tonic.

Yvonne Herzog

SEO Strategist at TourRadar
Yvonne is a real growth strategist. She brings 7 years of SEO knowledge and experience in building search-optimized websites. Prior to TourRadar, she led SEO projects for world-renowned brands across highly competitive industry sectors, including financial services. She believes that proactiveness, innovation, and data are key to position #1 on Google, YouTube and other search engines.

Andy Leigh

Senior Product Manager at TourRadar
Andy joined TourRadar in 2020 as a Product Manager, with the remit of acquiring customers, through SEO and marketing technology. He's also led projects to launch TourRadar into new international markets.

Shawn Pittman

Co-Founder & CFO at TourRadar
Shawn Pittman is the Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder of TourRadar and is responsible for the company’s strategy, vision, and finances. Shawn co-founded TourRadar with his brother Travis Pittman in 2010 with a mission to connect people to life-enriching travel experiences and has over 18 years of experience in the financial industry.

Sofya Muhrer-Muromets

Sustainability Coordinator at TourRadar
With a Bachelor of Political Science specializing in climate politics and an MBA with a specialization in sustainable management, Sofya has set a personal goal to show, guide, and support the journey of change toward a better future. She is a strong believer that everything is connected, and that the climate challenges we face in the industry can be overcome collaboratively.

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