Four speakers representing Bradt Guides, Footprint Travel Guides, Lonely Planet Publications and Wanderlust magazine will share how responsible tourism is increasingly important to them and their organisations.
Seated around the virtual table will be:
Moderators
- Sally Broom, CEO of Your Safe Planet & Fringe Network
- Stephen Chapman, Founder of Make Travel Fair
Speakers
- Tom Hall, Travel Editor at Lonely Planet Publications
- Dan Linstead, Editor of Wanderlust magazine
- Alan Murphy, Footprint Travel Guides
- Adrian Phillips, Publishing Director at Bradt Travel Guides
During the 60-minute session, the featured quartet will begin by making brief presentations about what is (and is not) being done to give readers what they need to travel as responsibly as possible. A question-and-answer period will follow.
To attend, please register first. Attendance is limited to 90 people and is on a first-come-first-served basis. Introductions will begin promptly at 13:00 GMT.
More Information
This responsible tourism webinar series, hosted by whl.travel, was launched on 4 June with a discussion of some of the thoughts and ideas propounded during Responsible Tourism Week 2009 – an online discussion held the week of 18-22 May that focussed on responsible tourism around the world. The primary objective of the webinar series is to demonstrate the universal appeal of responsible tourism to a broad range of constituencies in all sectors.
To listen to the proceedings of the completed 4th June webinar, check out the full recording, chat transcript and written summary, as well as additional commentary on the whl.travel Blog.
As this webinar is being run completely free of charge, please consider making a donation to the Cyclone Aila relief efforts.
Speakers’ biographies
TOM HALL – Travel Editor, Lonely Planet Publications
Tom Hall is a travel journalist based at Lonely Planet’s London office. He is the writer of the weekly Ask Tom feature in the Observer newspaper and appears regularly on radio and television. While Tom’s favourite destinations are all in Africa, he’s always banging on about how great holidaying in Britain is.
DAN LINSTEAD – Editor, Wanderlust magazine
Cambridge graduate Dan Linstead joined John Brown Publishing in 2000 as the editor of Orange’s pioneering lifestyle magazine, O. In five years of customer publishing, he wrote, edited and commissioned a range of travel, celebrity and general lifestyle features for companies including Waitrose, the AA, Honda and Ikea – and won a British Society of Magazine Editors award for O magazine. In 2005, he relaunched and edited bmi’s inflight magazine, ‘Voyager’, for Redwood Publishing. In 2006, he was appointed editor of ‘Wanderlust‘, the UK’s leading magazine for adventurous travellers.
ALAN MURPHY - Commissioning Editor and Publisher, Footprint Travel Guides
Following a stint as a copy editor and writer for the Bolivian Times, Alan Murphy began his Footprint career as an updater for the legendary South American Handbook, before being commissioned to research and write their new guidebooks to Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. He then returned to his native Scotland to write new guides to Scotland, highlands & Islands, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Now, though, poacher has turned gamekeeper and Alan is commissioning editor and publisher for Footprint Handbooks.
ADRIAN PHILLIPS – Publishing Director, Bradt Travel Guides
Adrian Phillips has written several guidebooks – including ‘Hungary: The Bradt Travel Guide’, which won Best Guidebook of the Year in 2006 – and contributes regular travel articles to national newspapers and magazines. He is one of the judges of the Bradt/Independent on Sunday Travel-Writing Competition and a tutor on the panel at Bradt’s annual travel-writing seminar.
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