Elisa Spampinato

Elisa Spampinato

Elisa Spamp­inato

Elisa Spamp­inato is a travel writer. As Founder & CEO at TravellerStoryteller.com, Ms Spamp­inato “dis­cov­ers ways to travel in a respons­ible way and to make tour­ism an oppor­tun­ity for trans­form­a­tion­al encounters”.

Early in her career, Elisa worked with social pro­jects and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment pro­grammes in Brazil, where she dis­covered the poten­tial of tour­ism in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

Today she col­lab­or­ates with SMEs, loc­al tour oper­at­ors, and com­munity-based tour­ism (CBT) pro­jects around the world to enhance their digit­al pres­ence and boost their com­mu­nic­a­tion and mar­ket­ing skills.

A Glob­al Com­munity-Based Tour­ism Ambas­sad­or for the Trans­form­a­tion­al Travel Coun­cil (TTC), an Asso­ci­ate for Equal­ity in Tour­ism, and a Mentor/Mentee for Women in Travel CIC, Elisa is a “strenu­ous advoc­ate for diversity, equal­ity, and inclu­sion in the travel industry”.

Invisible changemaker: A pioneer of community-based tourism in Ethiopia

August 23, 2022

Sunrise at Wajela community in Meket Woreda, North Wollo, Ethiopia. Photo © Elisa Spampinato.

In the first of her ‘Invis­ible Change­maker’ inter­views, Elisa Spamp­inato chats with Mark Chap­man, a pion­eer of com­munity-based tour­ism in Ethiopia.  The “Good Tour­ism” Blog is proud to pub­lish this inter­view series in col­lab­or­a­tion with Elisa’s Trav­el­ler Storyteller, a “GT” Part­ner. It’s a “GT” Insight Inter­view. [You can write a “GT” Insight.] To start this […]

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