EVENT RECORDINGS


Here you’ll find a host of original content from The Conscious Travel Foundation, ranging from inspirational guest speakers and workshops that help facilitate better business, to panel discussions taking on some of travel’s thornier issues and small-group ‘fireside’ chats.


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  • Building An Impact Brand

    Building An Impact Brand

    In a landscape where certification offers validation, impact branding is your edge—the key to standing out, connecting deeply, and communicating what truly sets you apart. It’s how you win hearts—and market share.

  • Ethics, Economics & Geopolitics

    Ethics, Economics & Geopolitics

    Hosted by Juliet Kinsman with guest panellists Gaurav Singha, Hjörtur Smárason and Katie Bloomer, this webinar unravels the complexities of ethical decision-making in travel and sheds light on the transformative potential of tourism in regions marked by controversy and conflict.

  • How to Fund (and Speak About) Climate Projects with Pinwheel

    How to Fund (and Speak About) Climate Projects with Pinwheel

    Hosted by our climate partners Pinwheel, this session will equip you with the tools, strategies, and insights to make a measurable impact while communicating your efforts authentically and effectively.

  • Mastering the Art of Impact Reporting

    Mastering the Art of Impact Reporting

    Hosted by Julie Cheetham, COO of Travalyst and TCTF mentor, this session is designed to equip you with the tools and insights you need to create compelling, trustworthy, and transparent impact reports.

  • Adventure Without Limits: Inclusive Travel with Sophie Morgan

    Adventure Without Limits: Inclusive Travel with Sophie Morgan

    Join renowned disability campaigner, wheelchair user, travel writer, broadcaster and proud The Conscious Travel Foundation mentor, Sophie Morgan, to discuss how the travel industry can use its creativity and resourcefulness to make every travel experience extraordinary—for every traveller, no matter their needs or requirements.

  • What's Really Happening in the Amazon?

    What's Really Happening in the Amazon?

    Martin Frankenburg, speaker on regenerative travel, founder of Kaiara Amazonia and the NGO, Movimento Refloresta, joins us to share his insights into the current state - and the future - of the Amazon.

  • Selling Sustainability: Where Storytelling and Data Meet

    Selling Sustainability: Where Storytelling and Data Meet

    Data storyteller, TED speaker, and founder of Equator, Edmund Morris, shares his insights on future travel trends on how to sell sustainable travel. Brilliant, insightful and entertaining.

  • What Life in Space Can Teach Us About Our Planet

    What Life in Space Can Teach Us About Our Planet

    Astronaut Nicole Stott shares her experiences from 104 days in space, reflecting on how life beyond our planet provides a unique vantage point to understand the fragility of Earth's ecosystems.

  • TCTF at PURE 2024 - Redefining Philanthropy

    TCTF at PURE 2024 - Redefining Philanthropy

    The Conscious Travel Foundation at PURE 2024. A Moonshot session hosted by TCTF mentor and founder of non-profit, Green Apple, in Colombia, and film maker and community builder, Kuba Nowak.

  • Introducing The Climate Fund

    Introducing The Climate Fund

    An introduction to The Conscious Travel Foundation’s collaborative Climate Fund with our partners, Pinwheel.

  • Community Impact Fund - Meet the Projects

    Community Impact Fund - Meet the Projects

    In conversation with the recipients of the 2023/24 Community Impact Fund — Jayni Gudka, founder of Sama Sama and Ang Tshering, founder of Phaplu Mountain Bike Club.

  • Phaplu Mountain Bike Club: Tales from Nepal

    Phaplu Mountain Bike Club: Tales from Nepal

    A short film featuring Phaplu Mountain Bike Club, one of the recipients of our Community Impact Fund for 2023/24. We hear from Ang Tshering, project founder and project director, Mingma Sherpa, talking about the club and their plans for the future.

  • Localisation: The Economics of Happiness

    Localisation: The Economics of Happiness

    A witness to Ladakh’s introduction to globalisation, Helena Norberg-Hodge joins travel writer and TCTF mentor, Nina Karnikowski to share her work on the worldwide localisation movement.

  • Wild Encounters: Creating a Wildlife Policy

    Wild Encounters: Creating a Wildlife Policy

    Milo Putnam guides us through the nuanced landscape of wildlife encounters in tourism, and the importance of creating a wildlife policy that aligns with your own conscious travel practices.

  • Conscious Conversations: Nature's Wisdom

    Conscious Conversations: Nature's Wisdom

    Portia Hart and experimental designer, researcher and diver, Rasa Weber explore how nature's systems can inspire solutions to man-made problems, in tourism and beyond.

  • 10 Ways to Harness AI with Lemongrass Marketing

    10 Ways to Harness AI with Lemongrass Marketing

    Join Lemongrass Marketing for an exclusive workshop to get to grips with harnessing Chat GPT for your travel business.

  • Introducing Our Philanthropy Programme

    Introducing Our Philanthropy Programme

    We are joined by founder of Philanthropy Without Borders and TCTF mentor, Caliopy Glaros, to discuss The Conscious Travel Foundation’s newly launched philanthropy strategy and framework.

  • How Can We Be Helpful? (Part 4 of 4)

    How Can We Be Helpful? (Part 4 of 4)

    Part 4 of 4 | How Can We Be Helpful: The Travel Industry For Morocco

    EDUCATION FOR ALL

    CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS

  • How Can We Be Helpful? (Part 3 of 4)

    How Can We Be Helpful? (Part 3 of 4)

    Part 3 of 4 | How Can We Be Helpful: The Travel Industry For Morocco

    SHORT-TERM VS LONG TERM RECOVERY (FOR A DESTINATION AFTER A DISASTER)

    GUIDELINES FOR ACTION

  • How Can We Be Helpful? (Part 2 of 4)

    How Can We Be Helpful? (Part 2 of 4)

    Part 2 of 4 | How Can We Be Helpful: The Travel Industry For Morocco

    THE FIRST 24 HOURS: HOW TO DECIDE WHAT’S MOST HELPFUL TO DO

  • How Can We Be Helpful (Part 1 of 4)

    How Can We Be Helpful (Part 1 of 4)

    Part 1 of 4 | How Can We Be Helpful: The Travel Industry for Morocco

    WELCOME ADDRESS AND ZINA BENCHEIKH OF INTREPID TRAVEL, LIVE FROM MOROCCO

  • Under and Over Tourism

    Under and Over Tourism

    Portia Hart is joined by guests from Bhutan, Colombia and Morocco to discuss their experience of over and under tourism in their destinations, what they are doing to improve the situation, and what agents and travellers can do to support those initiatives.

  • The Forum: Travel's Foodprint

    The Forum: Travel's Foodprint

    Portia Hart and founder of Vogo Tours, Harika Parmar, discuss travel’s ‘foodprint’ and how how everyone in the travel value chain can make impactful food choices and reduce the overall footprint of any holiday.

  • TCTF x The Long Run: Indigenous Tourism

    TCTF x The Long Run: Indigenous Tourism

    Joining forces once again with The Long Run to discuss indigenous tourism, moderated by travel writer and mentor for The Conscious Travel Foundation, Nina Karnikowski.

  • How Can Sustainable Marketing Drive Sustainable Tourism?

    How Can Sustainable Marketing Drive Sustainable Tourism?

    The Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership leads a session on the role sustainable marketing can play in driving positive change in the travel industry.

  • Influencing Your Travel Supply Chain

    Influencing Your Travel Supply Chain

    Hosted by Conscious Travel Foundation mentor, Penny Rafferty, we join forces with The Long Run to discuss the best practice questions to ask of your travel supply chain and why you should be asking them.

  • The Forum: Carbon

    The Forum: Carbon

    Led by Portia Hart, a small-group deep dive into carbon offsetting with Klimate and ecollective.

  • Sustainable Travel Blogs with Lemongrass Marketing

    Sustainable Travel Blogs with Lemongrass Marketing

    TCTF Partner, Lemongrass Marketing, host a member workshop on the importance of purpose-led content and how create a sustainable travel blog in 2023.

  • Micro Financing with the Untours Foundation

    Micro Financing with the Untours Foundation

    Jonathan Coleman, co-CEO of the Untours Foundation, joins us to share more about their fund for impact-focussed travel business around the globe.

  • Introducing Weeva

    Introducing Weeva

    We are joined by Julie Cheetham from sustainability management platform, Weeva, for an introduction to their game changing platform.

  • How to Get the Word Out About Your Sustainable Travel Brand

    How to Get the Word Out About Your Sustainable Travel Brand

    TCTF Partner, Lemongrass Marketing, host a member workshop on how best to get the word out about your sustainable travel brand in 2023.

  • Storytelling to Connect and Influence

    Storytelling to Connect and Influence

    Author, travel writer, sustainability advocate Nina Karnikowski joins us for an immersive session on how to change minds and influence people using the power of storytelling.

  • Accessible Travel

    Accessible Travel

    With 15% of the world’s population living with some kind of disability, this is an essential conversation on how our industry can, and must, create and facilitate truly inclusive experiences.

  • Evaluating Your Supply Chain

    Evaluating Your Supply Chain

    With panellists Susanne Etti from Intrepid and Portia Hart from Blue Apple Beach in Colombia.

  • Sustainability Certifications

    Sustainability Certifications

    Panel discussion with guest speakers from B Corp, The Long Run and the GSTC

  • TCTF Charitable Fund: Virunga National Park

    TCTF Charitable Fund: Virunga National Park

    In conversation with Emmanuel de Merode, park director at Virunga - the beneficiary of the first Conscious Travel Foundation Charitable Fund.

  • To Fly or Not To Fly?

    To Fly or Not To Fly?

    Juliet Kinsman, Justin Francis and Charlie Cotton discuss flying in the context of the climate emergency and how we can all be more conscious flyers.

  • Tales from Nepal

    Tales from Nepal

    Discover how even during a global pandemic, with closed borders, tourism can still be deployed as a force for good, with guest Ang Tshering.

  • Diversity and Inclusion in the Travel Industry

    Diversity and Inclusion in the Travel Industry

    Tackling the topics of diversity and inclusion in the travel industry, with guest panellists Portia Hart, Chris King and Feyi Odesola.

  • Carbon, Travel and the Climate Emergency

    Carbon, Travel and the Climate Emergency

    Join sustainable travel expert, writer and author Holly Tuppen for an introduction to the biggest challenge of our time: travelling during a climate emergency.

  • Slow Travel

    Slow Travel

    Talking all things Slow Travel with The Slow Cyclist, Shakti Himalaya and Rose Cameron Rides

  • Sustainable Storytelling

    Sustainable Storytelling

    A workshop on sustainable storytelling with editor, author, broadcaster and Condé Nast Traveller Sustainability Editor, Juliet Kinsman