The current global pandemic has given us all pause for thought. While the travel industry is meeting its gravest challenge to-date, there is a huge opportunity for a new style of travel to emerge; one that is centred around cultural exchange and ensuring local people and places benefit from all forms of travel.
For too long the travel industry has been exploitative, but times are changing and travel companies and travellers need to evolve.
Over the next few months, small group adventure operator, G Adventures, will be hosting a series of live discussions with leading voices from across the industry to tackle the most pressing issues facing travel today. Calling on consumers, travel agents, suppliers and media to join the conversation, Retravel Live will shine a light on the traveller’s power to enact change and contribute to making the new way of travel better for everyone.
The first Retravel Live event on September 30, 2020 at 12pm EDT, will cover the impact of the shift from ‘overtourism’ to ‘undertourism’, whether the new buzzword ‘regenerative travel’ will be more than just a fad, and how travellers can take actionable steps to ‘retravel’ better when they book their next holiday. Guest panelists are Elizabeth Becker, author of Overbooked, Juliet Kinsman, sustainability editor at Conde Nast Traveller U.K. and George Stone, editor in chief of National Geographic Traveler.
G Adventures’ founder, Bruce Poon Tip, who will also host ‘Retravel Live: An important conversation about travel’ says this is the first in this series of enlightening and inspiring online conversations focused on the ways we can all travel better.
“I’m honoured to sit alongside this panel of expert special guests who are all proven thought leaders in the world of travel. We’re all united in our vision that travel can and must be done better, and together we’ll be tackling the hottest issues facing the industry, discussing how we can “retravel” the right way, and sharing tangible ways our audience can make the right decisions,” says Poon Tip.
To save Aussies and Kiwis from waking up too early to watch the live event in real time, the G Adventures Oceania team will be hosting an exclusive YouTube Premiere on Thursday October 1, 6pm AEST. The video of the panel will then be available to view at any time on the G Adventures Youtube page.
Event: Retravel Live: An important conversation about travel (Oceania Youtube Premiere)
Date: 1 October, 2020.
Time: 6pm, AEST.
Link: www.youtube.com/user/
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