Carlos Rangel
Country: United States
Media Outlets: Eco tourism
Storyteller and traveller , specialized in travel content generation with extensive experience in editorial and digital projects. It has a track record of 20 years in the travel industry in Latin America and Spain.
World Adventure Divers / Wave Digital
Traditional Media
Country: France
Media Outlets: World Adventure Divers, PADI, Plongez Magazine
Florine is the founder and editor at worldadventuredivers.com. For the last 10 years, the PADI certified Divemaster has explored more than 100 scuba diving spots across the world to help divers travel on their own and make new friends on the way. As a travel writer and underwater photographer, she creates itineraries to combine exciting dive sites with cultural discoveries. She shares her top tips to scuba dive and travel more responsibly without breaking the bank in her stories. World Adventure Divers has partnered with the most recognized dive brands worldwide, such as PADI, Aqualung and DAN Europe, since 2015.
Freelancer Journalist
Traditional Media
Country: United States
Media Outlets: https://www.travelindex.com/
Haybina has rich travel industry experiences. Previously she was a tour operator and covered the Utah-Wyoming-Arizona national parks region. She served as V.P. Int’l Development for NTA, leading the “China Inbound Program” for 7 years and helping the industry achieve 3.5 million Chinese to the U.S. She was Regional Director – Greater China based in H.K. for WTTC. In Q4 2020 she resigned from WTTC to return to the U.S. for her family. She worked as a senior reporter for ICN TV Network, a Chinese media, and now is freelancing. She writes in Chinese and English (25%). She's an invited journalist by IPW, New Times Travel Show, ATTA events, AIANTA, WTTC Global Summit, UNWTO events, etc. Her writing is solid, informative, factual, entertaining & enlightening. She writes with the tour operators’ practices in mind. (Years back her English story won the Grand Prize for “A Mother’s World Travel Contest” by Calgary Herald.) Her advantage is her bilingual reporting skills coupled with her industry knowledge. Her stories are spread among the readers in the U.S., China, and Europe. The U.S. alone has about 6 million Chinese residents who are actively traveling. She’s looking forward to helping amplify the Patagonia tourism resources this September.
Freelance Travel Writer & Content Creator
Traditional Media
Country: United States
Media Outlets: Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Fodor's Travel, AFAR, TravelAge West
Jessica Poitevien is an international storyteller with more than nine years of experience in writing, editing, and content creation for a variety of publications both online and in print. She got her start in the travel industry in 2013 while living in Spain and launching her blog, She Dreams of Travel. Fast forward to the present, and you'll find her work in B2B and B2C publications such as Travel+Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Business Insider, Fodor's Travel, and more. Jessica is currently based in South Florida as she eagerly awaits her next adventure. When she’s not traveling or writing, you can find Jessica stoking the flames of her other obsessions: baking shows, talking to strangers, and exploring nature.
Adventure Journalist
Traditional Media
Country: Germany
Media Outlets: Terra Magazine, WideOyster Magazine, Business Punk, Globetrotter Magazine
As a freelance adventure journalist focused on adventure, extreme challenges, and remote, hard-to-get-to locations, Malte Clavin's work has been published in NatGeo Traveller, WWF, GEO, SPIEGEL, ADAC Traveller, Bild, Globetrotter (CH), Terra, Terra Mater, and ZEIT. An experienced keynote speaker, Malte has also told 19,000 people in 17 countries what treasure you can unearth with the courage to set out to pursue your personal challenges and adventures. As German editor-in-chief & lead strategist of WideOyster Creative, he realizes stunning campaigns for destinations - gaining millions of views. He also brings expertise as a management consultant having accompanied over 40 digital projects in 12 countries.
Paulina Chamorro
Traditional Media
Country: Brazil
Media Outlets: National Geographic Brazil, Vozes do Planeta Podcast
Journalist with more than two decades covering environmental issues, with experience and passion for great expeditions in nature. Desde 2016 tengo mi podcast Vozes do Planeta, uno de los primeros sobre el tema en Brasil. Colaboradora de National Geographic Brasil desde 2017, y mas recientemente tambien publico para LATAM. Desde 2019 participo de la Liga de las Mujeres por el Oceano, un movimiento de mujeres que trabajan por la conservación de los mares. Integro el equipo del proyecto Mujeres en la Conservación, que documenta el trabajo de investigadoras de la naturaleza en Brasil y merica Latina. Colaboradora de otros medios sobre naturaleza y sustentabilidad, como Ciclo Vivo, O Eco y Mongabay.
Freelance Journalist & Blogger
Traditional Media
Country: United Kingdom
Media Outlets: CNN Travel, Lonely Planet, The Independent, Travel Weekly, Worldly Adventurer
Steph Dyson is a bilingual freelance travel journalist who writes about sustainable adventure travel for publications around the globe, including CNN Travel, Lonely Planet, The South China Morning Post and The Independent. She also runs the award-nominated website, Worldly Adventurer, about conscious travel in Latin America, which has a strong focus on Chile and Patagonia, following the three years she spent living in the country. She’s worked on over a dozen guidebooks for Rough Guides and DK Eyewitness, and is the sole author of a guidebook to Chile, published by US publishing house, Moon.
About Us
Established in 1990, the Adventure Travel Trade Association is the largest global network of adventure travel leaders. Our community is made up of ~30,000 individual guides, tour operators, lodges, travel advisors, tourism boards, destination marketing and management organizations, outdoor educators, gear companies and travel media who share a belief and commitment to sustainable tourism. The connections and creativity of this vibrant community come together both virtually and in person to create and deliver the solutions that propel our businesses and our communities toward a responsible and profitable future.
