Jocelyn Pride is an Australian based freelance writer / photographer with a
keen interest in wildlife conservation, sustainability, history and cultural
experiences. Her stories and images have been published in a variety of
Australian print and online publications including, MiNDFOOD, Signature
Luxury Travel & Style, Selector, WellBeing, International Traveller and
Vacations & Travel.
As a current board member of the ASTW (Australian Society of Travel
Writers), Jocelyn is committed to help shape the future of travel writing in
Australia and was an instrumental leader of the ASTW Awards for
Excellence committee in 2021.
Since transitioning from a career in education to travel writing in 2012,
Jocelyn has received several Australian and international awards including
Best US Destination story at IPW in 2017 and the Best Travel Writer at the
AFTA National Travel Industry Awards in 2018.
After enduring the world’s longest pandemic lockdown in her home state
of Victoria, Jocelyn has had a lot of time to think about how travel may
look in the future. She believes writers play a key role to encourage
people to tread lighter but connect deeper.

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Ivana is a lecturer, a scientist, and a writer. She is based at the Faculty of Health and Business Studies, Singidunum University, Serbia. She focuses her professional interests on sustainable tourism, specifically in protected areas; community wellbeing; regenerative and transformational potential of tourist experience through storytelling; wellness through recreation, adventure, and nature-based tourism.

As a lecturer she is devoted to equipping future tourism professionals to be knowledgeable and creative, intentional and dedicated, mindful and empathetic, and recognize tourism as a milieu of stories to collect and guard, create and pass on. She facilitates learning experience through creating enhanced and tailor-made students' educational opportunities at home and in international context. She enjoys working with students with diverse cultural backgrounds (teaching in Serbia and across Europe since 2005). As a Vice-dean for international cooperation at the faculty, she enables students to create their international stories through exchange projects.

Ivana loves spending time in nature, hiking, mountaineering, free-climbing, playing airsoft, to name a few. She adopts stray animals. She sees beauty in the blend of creativity, truth, passion, purpose, respect, love, sharing knowledge, and learning from others. She lives in her home town, Valjevo, Serbia.

Email: ivana71281@gmail.com and idamnjanovic@singidunum.ac.rs

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ivana-damnjanovic-168b482b

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Tim Wenger is a travel journalist and author based in Colorado. He serves as an Associate Editor at Matador Network, where he's filed work from four continents, often looking at the intersection of outdoor recreation, conservation, and the economy.

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Elyse Mailhot is a passionate French-Canadian Public Relations and Marketing Communications professional who has been raising awareness of transformational travel in her inner circle and within the industry since 2017. Elyse’s passion for travel has immersed her in several life-altering adventures, from getting lost and found in the sprawling Namdaemun market in Seoul to being saved from a life-threatening illness by Good Samaritans in the form of Thai fishermen. Elyse’s epiphany that led her to embrace transformational travel as a career direction resulted from a conversation she had with Transformational Travel Council co-founder Jake Haupert at the 2016 Adventure Travel World Summit in Alaska. “I knew instantly that Jake and I spoke the same language. That unexpected yet profound conversation reaffirmed for me the career direction I had chosen.”

Elyse has lived in Vancouver for the last three decades, where she has accrued 25+ years of travel and tourism industry experience, honing a database of hundreds of A-list media and industry leaders. Elyse has worked with some of the most innovative DMOs, airlines, resorts, as well as small- and medium-sized adventure tour operators, including a few TTC Allies. In 2013 she founded EM Adventure Marketing Inc., which specializes in transformational travel following a life-changing adventure climbing the SkyLadder Via Ferrata in the Bugaboos mountain range. Elyse contributes her success to her never-ending optimism, tireless work ethic and the genuine connections she’s made in tourism.

In addition to running her own business, Elyse devotes her time to raising two adventurous teenage daughters and volunteering for the TTC as a publicist, advisor, and co-founder of the Herald Media Program. And for balance? “I keep sane by journaling, practicing meditation, and spending as much time as possible in my beautiful mountain playground of British Columbia.”

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Maria Baltazzi is a world traveler, seven-continent distance walker, and Emmy-winning television show producer. She was one of the original producers of CBS' Survivor. Maria's most recent adventure has been founding The Sojourn Experience, where she curates inner and outer journeys for a greater good. She leads workshops, transformative trips, and retreats around Happiness and Conscious-Centered Living. She teaches mindfulness, primordial sound meditation, prayer of the heart, as well as mindful movement. A percentage of the proceeds from her trips go to one of several nonprofits that she supports, including 1% for the Planet.

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Katherine is a travel and culture writer who has visited 63 countries, 6 continents, and all 50 states in pursuit of a good story. Her work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, Departures, Elite Daily, Forbes, Quest Magazine, TripSavvy, The Week, and World Travel Magazine, among other publications.

She has served as a guest speaker at travel media conferences and discussed her work in various podcasts (Travel Writing World, TripCast 360, Travel Radio Online) and publications (Huffington Post, Insider, The Maghreb Economist, The Tunisian Diplomat). Though she usually lives in New York City, she is currently based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Follow her adventures out West and beyond on Instagram @KatherineParkerMagyar and Twitter @Kpm1231, or visit her website.

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After a five-year stint as a TV talk-show host and weather personality, Bea embarked on a career of producing, writing and hosting travel shows. Traveling to as many as 15 countries a year to create series such as Passport to Adventure, Timeless Places and Outta Town Adventures, Bea’s chief objective is to communicate the appreciation she feels for a wide variety of cultures, lifestyle choices and belief systems. A result of seeing friendly people celebrating and experiencing their interpretations of life on this planet can result in desensitizing people to the fear of others, thereby creating peace. Through visiting and discovering a destination, it’s possible to discover more of oneself, and ultimately, a goal and natural offshoot of travel is to be transformative and enlightening.

With degrees in Psychology, Theatrical Performance and Metaphysical Science, Bea is an ordained minister, has played the piano professionally and finds her zen in a kayak. She splits her time between Toronto, Canada, and Palm Desert, California, and throws a little Baja, Mexico in between.

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