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Travel journalist, Impactful Storytelling Coach. Focus: Cultural heritage, equitable + conscious tourism. Polyglot. Global soul but born & raised on the Motherland.🇪🇹 Newsletter tourismlens.com & https://youtube.com/@tourismlens

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Grateful to learn I received 2 NATJA awards for my 2024 reporting! -Silver for my narrative/story on Asheville’s Black Heritage Trail (business cat.); - Honorable Mention for a reported piece on AfroBrazilian tourism (DEIA cat.), the first in my monthly Bloomberg #BetterTravelBureau column! 🙏🏾

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Scholarship opp: @honeybadgerwriters.bsky.social is accepting applications from journos and emerging writers from backgrounds underrepresented in the #media. Deadline: midnight on 2/19 for my six-week online #travelwriting class starting 2/25. www.writelikeahoneybadger.com/scholarships

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New Zealand’s ‘Everyone must go!’ tourism campaign ridiculed as emigration hits record high

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It’s time to ditch the single narrative about the Dominican Republic (and other islands/vacay spots marketed to draw foreigners). Latest YT episode here: youtu.be/j5VWRHkGo2Y?...

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Follow these journalists. They're trying to write useful stuff. 👇

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Au Louvre, le tarif plus cher pour les touristes internationaux dès 2026. Le Mont-Saint-Michel, la Sainte-Chapelle, l’Arc de Triomphe pourraient suivre. « …Plus le touriste vient de loin, moins il renonce pour des questions d’argent » #tourisme #voyage #France www.lefigaro.fr/culture/au-l...

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One of my home airports. Tragic. Prayers up.

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If you only read one of my conscious tourism columns this year, make it this one. All tourism should really be designed this way and these few tour operators are truly exemplary.

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Library Path Post

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Showed up in my feed on my birthday so I’ll take it! 😊🙏🏾💜

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If you’re looking for a book that inspires young travelers, shares some Italian words, and encourages kindness and self-acceptance, may I suggest my book: Pisa Loves Bella? 🙏 Here’s what The Children’s Book Review said: www.thechildrensbookreview.com?s=Pisa+loves... #KidLit #WritingCommunity

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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“Everyone wants us to be the happy people. But I’m too old to give a sh#t!”- Keith Henry. Woo! Say it louder.

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“We’ve lost 10 years of economic growth. We’re not recovered.” - Keith Henry, CEO Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada. So comparable to 2014 levels, while non-Indigenous Canadian tourism has surpassed pre-2019 levels. What do these results say? #impact2024

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Gracing the Impact stage in just a few hours! Sharing lessons & insights from my journey as a travel reporter focused on conscious tourism. #impact2025 #canada

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Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: #DEI Apple Costco Bank of America Delta JP Morgan Marriott Microsoft Procter & Gamble Goldman Sachs American Airlines Southwest Airlines United Airlines Catholic Health

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Magical boat day touring the Salish Sea with Eagle Wing Tours, Prince of Whales & Cecelia Dick of the Songhees Nation #impact2025 #victoriabc

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Currently in Victoria, BC Canada 🇨🇦 at Impact travel conference and so far am hearing from Canadians “no thanks” on visiting the US anytime soon. Among other things.

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Shared my insights on how a second Trump administration may impact US travel, for Bloomberg Pursuits’ newsletter to subscribers… From the likelihood of increased visa delays to global perception, here are the challenges I see ahead for America’s travel industry. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Italy bans self check ins for STRs effective immediately www.barrons.com/amp/news/ita...

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I'm gearing up for a free #travelwriting webinar with superstars Meera Dattani and @jenrosesmith.bsky.social. Join me in getting heavily caffeinated and talking shop on December 5, 10am EST/7am PST! Grab a ticket here: bit.ly/travelmediaw... #journalism #narrativenonfiction #writingtips #travel

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🌍 Is tourism to the African continent the next big thing? For leisure, but also for business, digital nomadism/remote work and relocation? ✈️Latest on my revived Tourism Lens podcast, with Kojo Bentum-Williams of UN Tourism & VoyagesAfriq youtu.be/352ofv5mGH8

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The US territory eclipses the Mexican Caribbean and the Dominican Republic as the region’s most popular destination this holiday season. Accomplishing that feat has been a concerted, yearslong effort: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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It’s wild how many more Americans are thinking of moving/living abroad on YouTube. Published a video on why I moved back to the US after 15yrs in the Caribbean = 76K views so far & got me monetized on YT in 3 months! Just shared my truths. Leaving or returning, it’s all a big privilege.

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Hope this is better than Threads… 😚

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