Travel Matters Podcast

Today our guest is Martinique Lewis one of the founders of Black Travel Alliance. Martinique is a digital disrupter in love with all things travel. She is a TBEX Speaker Alum and has been in the travel industry for three years now as a creator, a diversity in travel consultant, and as an influencer and...Read More

Our guest for this episode is TBEX North America Conference Director Tim Leffel. Tim started backpacking around the world and writing for travel magazines as a freelancer in the mid-1990s. He has published several books and now runs five different websites.  Tim joins us today to talk about the results from a recent survey he...Read More

In this special episode, Leslie Walker founder of Tourism Worx shares 15 things DMO’s travel brands and content creators can do right now to help seem them through the Covid19 crisis.  She shares the example of how the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum used transparency and being human to gain tens of thousands of...Read More

In this episode, we talk about COVID19’s impact on the travel industry and our daily lives. We start with how fast the pandemic spread in Italy, and our decision-making process to reschedule TBEX Europe 2020 in Catania Italy. We also talk about new dates for TBEX Europe 2020. We then have an in-depth discussion with...Read More

In this episode we speak with Keith and Tina Paul from Retire Early And Travel. As they write on their about page, they are lovers of travel and wine. Fueled by their passion for learning, experiencing other cultures, and meeting people, they want to see the world. They consider themselves forever students. Keith and Tina have...Read More

In this episode of Travel Matters, Rick Calvert talks to Michael Collins from TravelMedia.ie. TravelMedia.ie is a full service public relations, marketing, events, communications and travel trade representation company, founded in 2006, and managed by Michael Collins. The company is one of Europe’s leading travel media companies – specialising in PR, events, media buying, strategic...Read More

This is the first episode of Travel Matters, the official podcast from TBEX. Here we introduce the two hosts, Rick Calvert, CEO of TBEX and Palle Bo, The Radio Vagabond.  We also speak to Travel Camel, Shane Dallas, conference director of TBEX Europe about what is coming up on the conference in Catania, Sicily, Italy...Read More