Robert Powell

Robert Pow­ell

Robert Powell

A strategy con­sult­ant based in Thai­l­and, Robert Pow­ell is Tour­ism In Needs co-founder & com­mu­nic­a­tions man­ager. Since 2012 he has sup­por­ted organ­isa­tions and gov­ern­ments across Europe, Lat­in Amer­ica, and South­east Asia in the devel­op­ment and imple­ment­a­tion of policy and strategy.

Tourism in crisis, tourism in need, & the hopeful pivots of the purpose-driven

and October 14, 2020

Elephant Conservation Center, Sayaboury, Laos. Image by Jimmy Beunardeau; supplied by authors.

Even the most altru­ist­ic of tour­ism organ­isa­tions is strug­gling to sur­vive in des­tin­a­tions that have been reli­ant on inter­na­tion­al tour­ism money to take care of anim­als, places, and people. How­ever neces­sity is a par­ent of innov­a­tion and, as Tour­ism In Need co-founders Robert Pow­ell and Ameer Vir­ani have found out, there are plenty of both […]

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