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ABOUT | speaking engagements

Selected speaking engagements include but are not limited to:

  • 'Where to Next? Sizing Tourism's Water Footprint' Waterlution Provocateur, Toronto, March 19,2012
  • "Cultures for Sale" Centennial College, November 2, 2011
  • "Is There a Willingness to Pay for Sustainability", Coastal Seminar Series, United Nations University, Hamilton, Ontario, September 21, 2011
  • "Ecotourism Principles" University of Toronto, January 11, 2011
  • "Innovations in Sustainable Tourism in two islands: Chumbe & Gili Trawangan" 7th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, Hamilton, NZ, January 5, 2011
  • "Engaging Climate Friendly Efforts", The International Ecotourism Society, Portland, Oregon, September 9, 2010
  • "Are you missing out on the new 'eco' consumer", Tourism Whistler AGM, May 26, 2010 (Keynote Speaker)
  • "Climate Change and Tourism" Lakehead Speaker Series, Thunder Bay, Canada, March 11, 2010
  • "Climate Change and Tourism" ATTA Summit, Charlevoix, Quebec, October, 2009
  • "Climate Change and Tourism" Conference Board of Canada's Leaders Roundtable on Climate Change Adaptation (LRCCA), Toronto, Canada. September 23, 2009.
  • "Guatemala, a place for Culture and Sustainable Tourism" Guatemala City, September 9-11, 2009.
  • "The Future of Sustainable Tourism" Future Makers or Future Takers, Victoria School of Management, New Zealand, April 10, 2009
  • "Issues in Sustainable Tourism" Georgian College, Ontario, Canada, April 8, 2009
  • "Koh Phi Phi: Moving Towards or Away from Sustainable Tourism" Association of American Geographers Conference, March 20, 1009
  • "The Sustainable Advantage: Creating Social and Environmental Value" Ecotourism / Sustainable Tourism Panel, Wharton Business School Net Impact Conference. Pennslvania, USA, Nov 15-17, 2008
  • 'Is Change a Constant? Assessment of Stakeholder Participation in Sustainable Tourism Practices in Tofino, BC' TTRA Canada Conference, Victoria, Canada, Oct 15-17, 2008
  • "Sustainable Tourism & Climate Change" TIAC Policy Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 10, 2008
  • "CSR: The Busines Case for Responsible Tourism" CHMSE Executive Development Day, Toronto, Canada, Mar 27, 2008
  • "CSR in the Tourism Industry - a global perspective" Canada's First Responsible Tourism Conference. Toronto, Canada, Nov 22, 2007
  • "CSR in the Tourism Industry." TTRA Canada Conference, Oct. 18-21, Charlottetown, Canada
  • "Awareness and participation of carbon offsetting" TTRA Canada conference, PEI, Canada, October 18-21, 2007
  • "Implementing Sustainable Tourism Policies and Programs - achieving a triple bottom line perspective." Beaches World Tour, International Blue Flag Conference, Toronto, Oct 9-10, 2007.
  • "Climate Change - How it Affects Your Business." Ontario Ministry Marketing Summit. Ottawa, Oct 3-4, 2007.
  • "Carbon Offsetting in the Tourism Industry" 5th Bi-Annual Symposium of the International Society of Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research, Charleston, SC, June 4-6, 2007
  • "Global Business Summit" hosted by UN Global Compact and UNEP, Singapore, April 18-20, 2007
  • "Climate Change: How Will This Phenomena Affect Your Business." ACTA Open Forum, Toronto, Feb 14, 2007
  • "Sustainable Tourism and the Future" Georgian College Careerplace Expo, Feb 1, 2007 (Keynote Contributor)
  • "Achieiving Sustainable Tourism in Malta: A Multi-Stakeholder View" Sustainable Tourism in Islands & Small States hosted by the Islands & Small States Institute, Malta, May 25-27, 2006 (Keynote Speaker)
  • "Sustainable Tourism: What is it?" Google Head Office -Environmental Day, May, 2006
  • "The Nature of Ecotourism" Birdlife Forestry Task Force Bulgaria, Oct 13-15, 2005 (Keynote Speaker)
  • "Tourism & Biodiversity" Biodiversity science that matters. 8th - 26th November 2004 e-conference on behalf of Dutch Presidency meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) (Keynote Contributor)
  • "Creating a Framework for Tourism Policy and Destination Management", World Tourism Organisation, June 2004
  • Sustainable Tourism in Heritage Cities Workshop, ITR Declaration for the Barcelona Forum 2004, Cordoba, Spain, December 15, 2003 - contributor
  • 'Sustainable Mass Tourism In Coastal Destinations', Rimini, Italy, December 13, 2003
  • Chief Engineers Conference for Hilton International, London, UK, Sept 9, 2003 - speaker (working for the International Hotel Environmental Initiative)
  • "Sustainable Urban Tourism" (SUT Governance), Heidelberg, Germany, June 22-24, 2003 (Keynote Speaker)
  • International Institute of Peace Through Tourism (IIPT), Geneva, February 5-8, 2003
  • International Ecotourism Summit - Internet Marketing Lecture (The International Ecotourism Society), Quebec City, May 19-22, 2002
  • World Congress IATOS (International Adventure Travel and Outdoor Show) Chicago, USA, Feb 19-22, 2002
  • World's First Urban Ecotourism Conference, Herzliya, Israel, Dec, 2001 - (Keynote Speaker)
  • WTO/UN Preparatory Conference for the International Year of Ecotourism, Cuiaba, Brazil, August 22-24, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

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