Elevate your travel conference
Insightful. Inspirational. Entertaining.
Messages that connect with stakeholders
Customized content that’s relevant to your audience
Challenge the audience.
Rethink the status quo.
Find a common vision.
Advancing New Ideas
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International Keynotes for Industry Leaders
Best Practice Destination Management Ideas from Around the World.
Keynote Topic Ideas
reThinking Tourism
What are the new goals of tourism? Doug lays out new and more relevant ways to measure tourism success: a balance of optimizing visitors numbers, local life quality, increased spending that stays in the local economy, and reduced impact on the environment.
Global Best Practice
What can we learn from other tourism innovators around the world? What are industry leaders discussing at tourism conferences globally? Doug brings the latest trends in destination marketing and management to your event.
Visitor Management
Doug explains how to engineer good tourism behavior instead of just requesting it… and how to get locals to appreciate tourists more.
TRAVEL JOURNALIST WITH 20+ YRS EXPERIENCE
A Trusted Analytical Voice in the Media
CONTRIBUTED WRITING TO: Lonely Planet • Skift • PhocusWire • The Guardian • Men’s Health • Rough Guides • San Francisco Chronicle • National Geographic Traveler • Reader’s Digest • Esquire • Denver Post • Chicago Tribune • Miami Herald • Los Angeles Times • Newark Star Ledger • St Paul Pioneer Press • Charlotte Observer … and dozens more.
Background
Doug Lansky has been living abroad and traveling for the last nearly 20 years in over 120 countries. He is the author of 10 books, had a weekly syndicated travel column in over 40 newspapers, hosted a Travel Channel show, served as a correspondent for Public Radio’s Savvy Traveler show, served as travel editor for Scandinavian Airlines inflight magazine and contributed to publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Reader’s Digest, Esquire, Men’s Journal, The Guardian, and Skift. On the speaking circuit, Doug has given acclaimed lectures at over 100 universities, hundreds of major tourism destinations, hotel associations, airports and leading tourism companies, from Google Travel to AmEx to Booking.com to the United Nations World’s Tourism Organization, as well as two TEDx Talks and set the attendance record for keynote lectures when he first spoke at ITB Berlin. He as also served
What People Are Saying
“I could say some nice things, but proof is always better. I have arranged about 50 conferences in the last 10 years. And there are typically about 30 speakers at each one, if you include breakout sessions. Of those approximately 1500 speakers, none of them has ever scored as high on our review survey as Doug Lansky. ”
— Björn Anderberg
Editor at Bonnier Business Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden
“Doug Lansky spoke at our annual Austrian hotel association conference with 600 participating hoteliers, tourism experts and representatives from industry, politics and the media plus 250 tourism students from from all over Austria. Not only was Doug easy to work with during the lead-up to our event, but our post-conference review results showed that Doug’s presentation received the highest score out of all 15 speakers! We are happy to say that he exceeded our high expectations and really inspired our participants.”
— Barbara Diallo–Strobl
Austria Hotel Association
“Doug did a phenomenal job presenting to our audience of 1,000 members and community leaders. He connected and kept everyone engaged throughout the presentation. Doug was willing to adapt his presentation to our audience making it relevant and timely which resulted in high ratings from our attendees.”
— Kristen Darby
Visit Orlando
