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Conscious Travel is a movement that enables places to attract and welcome guests in a manner that does not cost the earth. It is designed to help develop a network of Conscious Hosts - businesses whose leaders put Higher Purpose ahead of profit; generate net benefit for all stakeholders affected by their business; demonstrate conscious leadership skills and have created a culture that cares. Conscious Travel is also a call to those working in the travel industry who want to be more; believe tourism can be a positive change agent; who want to find meaning and purpose in their work; who want to generate real, net benefits for the host community while creating sustainable incomes and healthy profits. It is a movement inspired by members of the Conscious Capitalist alliance and the many small tourism enterprises committed to acting responsibly.

Melbourne, Au

We are a community of passionate professionals who wish to: Inspire, enable and empower the travel, tourism and hospitality sector to move from an extractive to a generative mode of operation that improves the well-being of all. Nurture the capability of people and places to apply Nature’s design principles so that people and places can thrive and evolve. Support one another in a community of practice that deepens our own understanding and experience of those principles at work.

Sei-Mani is a professional services company assisting large commercial enterprises unlock the value of "social business" through the introduction, adoption and development of collaboration technologies such as Cisco's WebEx Social, Jive, Yammer, MangoApps etc. The company's focus is on achieving high levels of adoption and engagement within the workforce and my role is to assist through developing education, training and self-service learning programs. This role has meant mastering the functionality of rapidly evolving platforms in order to be able to guide and coach users; distill the benefits to management and understand the implications for various business sectors and enterprises. Opportunities for applying these collaborative technologies to the networks that dominate the structure of tourism are being explored as well. www.sei-mani.com

Polynesian Xplorer is a dynamic, expanding full-service destination management company based in Samoa that has an established relationship with event organisers, meeting planner, tour operators and wholesalers and has played a major role in shaping Samoa's tourism industry. My role is to proved strategic and tactical advice that enables them to fully utilise technology and social media to adjust to rapidly changing market conditions.

Leominster, Herefordshire, Gb

DestiCorp is my core company, 100% owned by me and registered in the UK. Enjoying team work I also work as an associate with several other firms including Think!Social Media. I am co-founder and supporter of The Icarus Foundation.The focus of my work is helping clients understand deep change and develop adaptive strategies.www.desticorp.typepad.com

Ca

The Icarus Foundation is a not-for-profit environmental, policy, research and education organization focused on sustaining a climate friendly tourism industry in Canada. We provide practical information, programs and research that encourage and enable hosts and guests to minimize the greenhouse ases generated by tourism activity. See: www.theicarusfoundation.com

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

I still am an Associate of InterVISTAS supporting Joe Kelly, Director of the Environmental Services portfolio of services: market research, destination strategy and planning, sustainable tourism strategy development, carbon footprinting, energy and carbon audits for destinations ans tourism-related enterprises.

DestiCorp is a futures-oriented, strategy consultancy serving the travel, tourism and hospitality sector with a particular focus on the role and function of destinations. Our primary interest and contribution revolves around the need to adapt to fundamental and rapid change in the way destinations are marketed and managed. Four areas of specilty include change management, leadership, the strategic implications of information technologies and issues associated with sustainability.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Board member and advisor to VRX Worldwide and VRX Studios a Vancouver-based public company creating quality visual content for global travel intermediaries and tourism suppliers.

Setup a publishing company to help write, produce and distribute books about change, social reposibnsibility and the future of work. The first title is called Winning by Sharing, authored by Leon Benjamin. See www.winningbysharing.net. Contine to work with Leon through DestiCorp A recent Media Week Magazine book review, says (Oct 2005). "Flexibility and adaptability were once upon a time seen as weaknesses; trust wasn't even talked about. What this book correctly identifies is that as the pace of change quickens, the old ways of thinking about business success are becoming obsolete". Most recent reader comment: "Read Benjamin's entire book in 2.5 hours. Could not put it down. What an eye opening experience. I do believe you are right on track! Will digest one more time! Great insight! Regards and Thank You for Your Fine Work! Will recommend to my network!" Rick Bryce (USA)

Co-created a software company that conceived and built one of the UK's first destination management systems that could be used by tourist boards to manage multimedia, text and transactional content about supply and distribute via call centres, information centres, kiosks and the web. Contributed to sales in excess of $2 million equivalent within two years, authored a number of IT strategies and funding applications for clients and throughout the UK. System recognised as "best practice" by national government's first tourism strategy in 1999.

Consultancy based in London, England and Vancouver, Canada serving the travel and tourism industry. Undertook a diversity of projects inclusing IT strategies, business plan, market assessments; a major education and training strategy for Tourism in British Columbia; destination marketing plans and product evaluations.

Ba Hons (First Class), Geography (Major), German (Minor)

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