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.
Read Part 1 of “The Relationship between Food & Community-based Tourism: Central America” here. During this second part of our journey through Central America, we soon […]
Since September 2019, polar explorers Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby have been living in a small trapper’s cabin on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, […]
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The Balaeric Islands, an achipelago off the east coast of Spain and extremely popular with sun-seeking tourists, is looking to become a more environmentally friendly destination […]
Global warming, droughts, deforestation, fires: these phenomena are a constant all over the world, but more so in the Amazon and it may lead to the […]
Exactly a year ago ‘Visit Nepal 2020 campaign’ was kicked off amidst huge fanfare in a stadium in Kathmandu. One hundred and eight larger than life […]