The third round of speakers at the TBEX Summit in Anchorage, Alaska, is a collection of 6 highly skilled professionals who will provide travel media – including travel creators, vloggers, Social Media specialists, influencers, and photographers – with constructive information, tools, and innovative strategies for success in the current travel and tourism space.

The TBEX Anchorage summit event will also provide a wealth of information for travel and tourism industry providers – including tourism boards, destination marketers, tour operators, hotels, and marketing agencies – on how to develop a powerful online presence and work effectively with content creators. The 80-minute breakout sessions allow for more detailed information for attendees on important topics.

Let’s meet the speakers!

Travelling the world, one adventure at a time. Follow Dave Brett, a solo adventure travel blogger on his travels around the world on his site www.traveldave.co.uk. A globe-trotting adventure travel blog featuring travel tips and advice, travel stories, travel videos and travel photography that will inspire your next trip abroad.

Dave Brett, Travel Dave

Tony Biel, is a Director of Brand Partnerships at Flipboard, a content discovery platform offering personalized “For You” feeds from over 30,000 topics and 4,000 publisher partners. Flipboard’s Travel Category is a major draw, attracting over 35 million followers. This vibrant community brings together content from premium travel publishers, travel bloggers, and millions of Flipboard users who curate their own travel magazines.

Travel Media / Travel Creators TBEX Speaker, Tony Biel

Tony Biel, Director of Brand Partnerships at Flipboard

Tomiko Harvey is a seasoned marketing professional and travel content creator with over 25 years of experience in marketing, including more than 10 years focused on SEO and travel and tourism. She is the Vice President of the Black Travel Alliance, an organization dedicated to promoting diversity in the travel industry, and the Conference Director for TBEX North America, the largest travel conference.

Tomiko is the founder of Passports and Grub, a travel blog that caters primarily to women over 40, with a strong focus on Black women travelers. She is passionate about representing Black women, addressing ageism, and promoting inclusive tourism.

Travel Media / Travel Creators TBEX Speaker, Tomiko Harvey

Tomiko Harvey, Passports and Grub

Christopher Mitchell is the founder of travelingmitch, winner of the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Website. He is the cofounder of Ultimate Ontario and We Explore Canada, as well.

Beyond that, he’s the cofounder of the Toronto Blogger Collective, the popular newsletter for creators and digital markets, This Week in Blogging, and the North American Director for the TBEX Conference.

Christopher Mitchell, travelingmitch

Christopher will moderate a panel, assembled by Stay22 and featuring Dave, Tony, Tomiko as well as Tammilee Tillison, on AI’s role in content monetization.

Nina Clapperton, the founder of She Knows SEO, is not your typical multi-six-figure business owner. Nina’s journey began with a travel blog she started in 2018, which struggled for four years. But everything changed in 2021 when she discovered the power of SEO. In just six months, she grew her blog from 5k to 55k sessions, eventually achieving milestones like her first $10k month in mid-2022 and an impressive $110k month by June 2023. Now, Nina is on a mission to help others transform their lives through easy-to-understand SEO and AI strategies, sharing her knowledge with the same enthusiasm that helped her teach her 90-year-old Russian grandma what a podcast is.

Nina Clapperton, She Knows SEO

Bri Sneller is the adventurous blogger, photographer, and content creator behind Bucketlist Bri, her mindful travel blog where she writes detailed guides and itineraries from her experiences living around the world. As a seasoned nomad, Bri has slowly traveled and lived in 10+ countries since her first extended moves abroad to France and Nepal in 2013 and 2015.

After abandoning a budding career in humanitarian aid, Bri fused her two passions, traveling and writing, and took her travel blogging business full-time. She has since grown multiple niche sites and now mentors aspiring bloggers to build their travel blogging businesses through her 1:1 mentorship and signature blog course, Bootstrap Blogging. On her podcast, Slomad Stories, Bri recounts her intrepid adventures and interviews fellow slomads embracing unconventional, purposeful lives.

Travel Media / Travel Creators TBEX Speaker, Bri Sneller

Bri Sneller, Bucketlist Bri

Eugenia Semenova is the Partnerships Manager at Travelpayouts. She has lived in three countries and speak multiple languages. She finds pleasure in meeting new people, learning new things, and spreading that knowledge further into the world. Eugenia’s goal is to help Travelpayouts’ partners monetize their blog in the most efficient and natural way.