Travel Massive Podcast Episode #3 – Responsible and Sustainable Travel

On this episode of the Travel Massive podcast, our host and producer Holly Galbraith chats to freelance travel writer and communicator Ethan Gelber about his decade long commitment to sustainable and responsible travel.

Ethan is involved in many organisations including co-founding Outbounding, a community-powered platform for identifying, celebrating and distributing excellent travel content; Family Travel Association, which inspires families to travel and advocates for travel as an essential part of every child’s education;
and The Travel Word, a website that showcases responsible, sustainable and local travel.

Podcast #3 – Listen to Holly’s interview with Ethan Gelber

Details of Episode 3 with Ethan Gelber​:​

Episode highlights and what Ethan shares:

• H​is “accidental” path into the travel industry​.
• How he combined​ ​travel and education​ before the sustainable travel movement​.​
• “The future of travel is sustainable travel”
• ​Too much tourism ​all ​at once​ can be abusive ​on people and places. “You have to place the emphasis on the people who live there”
• “Ethical and responsible travel sector ​is ​still a​ very​ small niche”.
• “Change is critical and inevitable but we all need to work together”.
• The travel industry can do more to do better including private industry, media, consumers.
• “Revolution is slow” even though it’s been developed over the course of two decades.
• ​”Change will happen from the growing awareness of the impact on climate, loss of language, culture, or animals”.​ ​

The Travel Massive podcast is an interview series hosted by Holly Galbraith with a focus on travel industry change-makers and pioneers, sharing their stories and insights. Holly also records her own Tourism Tweetup podcast geared toward industry professionals who want to learn more about tourism marketing.

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