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Vicky Smith

Sustainable Tourism + Entrepreneurship

Founder & Director, Earth Changers
London, UK

Topics Include:

  • Solo female travel & guiding: ski, adventure, Africa, conservation (ranger), volunteer tourism
  • Entrepreneurialism, startup
  • Responsible, Sustainable, Regenerative tourism

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Last updated on November 7th, 2023

Vicky Smith has worked in tourism since the mid-90s and in sustainable tourism since the mid-2000s. She has worked in destinations, marketing and e-commerce, heading operations abroad and online for major tour operators, online travel agents and media, in mainstream tourism, ski, safari, tours, charity challenges & voluntourism, NGOs & sustainable tourism accreditation.

She’s a qualified ranger in Africa, charity challenge leader, sustainable development charity trustee, published academic and startup founder of earth-changers.com.

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • 2023 – Verbier Tourism
  • 2023 – Regenerate Europe, Croatia
  • 2023 – Forest of Bowland, UK
  • 2022 – Heilbronn University, Germany
  • 2022 – North Pennines Area of Natural Beauty, UK
  • 2022 – GSTC online training
  • 2022 – SunX on Doughnut Economics in Tourism (online guest lecture)
  • 2021 – Sustainable(ish) – Knackered Mums Eco Club
  • 2021 – Tourism Association – Time to Rethink Tourism?
  • 2021 – Pebble Magazine Community: Travel Panel
  • 2021 – Tourism Association: The Road Ahead

Books, Podcasts, Articles, and More

Travel Writers Radio with Keeley Warren on Curated Regenerative Tourism
FinTech Product Podcast: You can make a difference, think sustainable tourism
BBC Radio 4 - Costing The Earth: Future Tourists - Is wildlife tourism good or bad for the world’s most sensitive environments?