Elisa Spampinato is a Community Tourism Consultant, Connector and Storyteller.
She is a recognised and certified Sustainable Tourism professional and a Global Community-Base Tourism Ambassador. She has worked with local communities in over 30 countries.
She is the Founder of Traveller Storyteller, and she works with Tourism Boards and Destinations to support the self-empowerment of their Indigenous people involved in tourism by providing tools, training and support in Community Storytelling and Ethical Marketing.
She has written for Tourism Concern, Equality in Tourism, Tourism Watch, Travindy, Travel Matters, GLP Films, Adventure Travel Trade Association ATTA, and TTG Media, among others, and she is a Media Herald for the Transformational Travel Council (TTC).
Elisa can be followed on her Blog, Facebook, LinkedIN and Instagram.
1. More than just a product Of course, in the context of CBT – i.e. where the community is the protagonist – food is never a touristic product. It is […]
The Global Tourism Crisis Committee has met for the last time in 2020, to continue advancing coordination and cooperation among all parts of the sector. The […]
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched its new high-level guidelines for inclusion and diversity in the Travel & Tourism sector, which have been […]
The pairing of food and community-based tourism (CBT) is a visceral relationship, and one which might assume a variety of nuances and shapes; the way the two themes […]
Ahead of the European Council summit on 10-11 December, mayors warn that the EU 2030 emissions reduction target should be revised upwards to at least 60% […]
Ensuring accessibility for tourists with specific access requirements can be a ‘game changer’ for destinations around the world as they look to bounce back from the […]
The Brussels Government is building the city of tomorrow in accordance with the 2019 Regional Policy Declaration. It will be a friendlier, healthier, more prosperous city […]
The largest and capital city of Greenland, Nuuk, has recently achieved a Bronze Benchmarking, meaning the city has completed the first three (out of six) steps […]
The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative has welcomed 26 new signatories, including businesses and organizations from every part of the global tourism value chain. Led by the […]
The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has concluded his official visit to the Americas with a series of high-level meetings in Uruguay. Secretary-General Zurab […]
The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has reaffirmed his commitment to working closely with the Government of Brazil to help the country’s tourism sector […]
There has been much talk about how Covid-19 has accelerated changes in the way people work, in business travel and driving development and growth in online […]
Named European Capital of Smart Tourism 2020, (joint with Gothenburg, Sweden), the city of Málaga in Spain showed exemplary achievements in all categories of the awards […]