Meet the Team
Our Associates
Alba Sud
ALBA SUD is a Catalan association, specialised in research and communication for development, and founded in Barcelona in 2002.
Annie Young
Annie has been working in the tourism industry, specialising in the combination of tourism and conservation, for over 20 years.
Brenda Boonabaana
Brenda is a Lecturer and Gender Specialist based at Makerere University, Uganda where she leads the teaching of Sustainable Tourism and Tourism Resources Management courses.
Carla Ricaurte Quijano
Carla Ricaurte Quijano is an Associate Professor in Tourism at ESPOL in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Charlotte Louwman-Vogels
Charlotte is Founder and CEO of Fair Tourism Foundation, which aims to further gender equality in the tourism industry by preventing the exploitation of local communities.
Charmarie Maelge
Charmarie is the Founder Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership in Sri Lanka and created the National Sustainable Tourism Certification Scheme for the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority in 2019.
Dr Diana Shakti Maya Luck
Diana is a consultant, author and researcher in Relationship Management and Social Responsibility.
Dr Elaine Chia Ling Yang
Dr Elaine Chiao Ling Yang is an Associate Professor of Tourism and the Program Director of Research Studies at Griffith Business School.
Dr Hamira Zamani-Farahani
Hamira Zamani-Farahani has worked as a tourism researcher, writer, consultant, lecturer and entrepreneur for several years.
Elisa Sampinato
Elisa Spampinato is an Anthropologist, Impact Storytelling Strategist and founder of Traveller Storyteller, where she developed The Hidden Story Framework™.
Fiona Bakas
Fiona Eva Bakas, PhD, is a critical tourism researcher with international teaching experience.
Gavin Bate
Gavin is the founder of the adventure travel company Adventure Alternative and the charity Moving Mountains.
Hazel Tucker
Hazel Tucker is Associate Professor in Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and specialises in the area of tourism's influences on socio-cultural relationships and change.
Heather Jeffrey
Heather’s doctoral studies have focused on the influence of tourism on Tunisian women, though she has also researched work life balance and maternity protection in Malaysia.
Iaia Pedemonte
Iaia is a freelance journalist and the founder of the Gender Responsible Tourism Association (GRT), a team of communication, responsible tourism and gender experts promoting women’s empowerment in tourism.
Karen Simmonds
Karen is the founder of Travel Matters, a travel concierge company which specialises in arranging bespoke worldwide adventures and holidays.
Kate Simon
Kate has been a journalist for more than 25 years working on a variety of national UK newspapers and business and consumer magazines.
Jacqueline Kali (KAWT)
Kenya Association of Women in Tourism (KAWT) is a non-profit association, whose primary mandate is to provide a platform for women’s empowerment through engagement, employment and participation in the tourism industry.
Lucky K. Chhetri
Lucky K. Chhetri is an award-winning social entrepreneur and campaigner for women's empowerment.
Maud Kumbiryi Masiyiwa
Maud’s mission is to encourage uplifting women in Africa to key decision-making positions, transparent ownership within the tourism industry, and handing the baton over to the younger female entrants.
Nyamirambo Women's Center
Nyamirambo Women's Center, a Rwandan NGO, was launched at the end of 2007 by 18 women living in Nyamirambo, Kigali.
Nicolosi Pierrette
Pierrette has run a travel agency in Brussels for the past 25 years. Her experience in the travel business prompted her to set up Toures (Tourism Responsable).
Polly Pattullo
Polly is a publisher, journalist and teacher. Her first books were about the role of women: in employment (Women and Work, with Lindsay Mackie, 1978) and in politics (Power and Prejudice, with Anna Coote, 1990).
Prof Shirley Kaye Randell
Shirley is a leading expert in education, public sector and institutional reform in developing countries and in gender mainstreaming and human rights for women.
Sarah Becklake
Sarah has a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University and is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Institute for Sociology at Leibniz University Hannover, where she teaches on the global politics of mobilities, security, and development.
Shelagh Mooney
Shelagh Mooney is a postgraduate Program Leader at the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), where she lectures in organ
Women In Tourism Indonesia
Women in Tourism Indonesia is a non profit organisation that embraces women who participate in the tourism industry by spreading awareness that 'they matter'.
Erum Khan
Erum Khan is a pioneer in sustainable tourism and one of Pakistan's foremost advocates in this field.
The Ubuntu Women Tourism Foundation
The Ubuntu Women Tourism Foundation is a sustainable tourism startup in Uganda that offers meaningful travel experiences and volunteer opportunities.
Lucy Ferguson
Lucy Ferguson is an international specialist in gender issues in tourism, following her PhD on the topic in 2007.
Lucy Atieno
Lucy Atieno is a tourism researcher currently pursuing her PhD at Bremen University in Germany.
NJERI GACHUHI
Njeri Gachuhi is a lawyer and a social justice activist who merged her passion for travelling and fighting for the rights of women and sexual minorities to build a travel start up called The Travelling Wakili.
Irstel Jansen
Irstel is a social entrepreneur and human rights consultant with 20 years of work experience in tourism and international development, promoting social cohesion and advancing women’s and children’s rights in Sri Lanka’s tourism sector and beyond.
Wisam Abbasi
Wisam Abu Ghosh is a development consultant with over 20 years of experience, specialising in heritage and tourism development.
Samah Abunemah
Samah Ouda Abu Na'meh is the dedicated president of the Women's Cooperative Association in Battir Village, Bethlehem, Palestine.
Oumayma Hilal
Oumayma Hilal is a tourism researcher and practitioner from Morocco, currently pursuing a PhD in Communication and Tourism Resilience.
Estefania del Azar
Estefanía del Azar is a communications and marketing professional currently working as Communications Manager at the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).
Bianka Benko
Bianka Benko founded No Planet B – Travel with B after years of travelling, working with local communities, and being involved in tourism development projects across different regions.
Ngonidzashe Makwindi
Ngonidzashe Makwindi is a tourism academic, researcher and development practitioner with extensive experience in higher education.
Elizabeth Mumanga
Elizabeth Mumanga is an environmental policy expert, climate change activist, and gender inclusion advocate with a strong focus on sustainable and inclusive tourism.
Annabelle Hender
Annabelle is a sustainable tourism specialist dedicated to leveraging tourism as a force for good.
Prerna Prasad
Prerna Prasad is the Founder and CEO of Ecoplore, India’s largest platform for eco-friendly hotels and experiences.
