Travel Massive will be hosting a panel of top brands and content creators (travel bloggers). The panel will discuss issues such as best practices, pitfalls, and successful (and not so successful) case studies. Brands need to look beyond traditional methods of advertising & marketing and benefit from leveraging those in the blogging community. Of course, we will be taking questions and comments from the audience.
Brands
Paul Pruangkarn
Paul Pruangkarn is the Director – Communications at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.
He oversees day-to-day operations of all communications and serves as the senior spokesperson for the Association. Paul works to enhance PATA’s media relationships, maintaining partnership agreements with such organisations as BBC World News, National Geographic Traveller, Skift, TTG Asia and the Professional Travel Bloggers Association (PTBA).
Paul hails from New York and has spent the past eight years living in Thailand. Prior to PATA, Paul worked at an Internet start-up in Bangkok as the Senior Business Development Manager, overseeing the daily operations, and as the Sub-Editor at Radio Thailand English Language News, where he also worked as an on-air personality. Before moving to Thailand, he spent five years as the Newsroom Supervisor at Business Wire, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
He has also worked for such companies as Reuters, British Petroleum, and Traditional Home Magazine. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Classics with a concentration in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology from the University of Buffalo in New York.
Julie Fitzgerald
Julie FitzGerald is the General Manager of G Adventures Asia, an adventure travel company and social enterprise founded in Canada. G Adventures is famous for beginning the experiential travel movement with it’s launch of small group tours in 1990.
Julie was remotely based in China while leading trips in China, Russia, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan and has worked extensively in the Asia region living in both New Delhi and currently Bangkok. She moved from the head office in Toronto to reside full time in Thailand in 2012. Inside Julie’s region there are 6 reporting offices that manage the operations of trips in 26 countries in Asia from as far west as Tajikistan, East to Japan and down to Indonesia in the South Pacific.
Simon Philipp
Simon is the CEO and Founder of Expique. Expique offers a range of unique tours and travel related experiences in Bangkok, with the aim to show the beauty of the city and the local culture. These include walking tours, tuk tuk tours, culinary experiences and talks on culture. Expique’s brands also include The Market Experience and Random Thainess.
Simon has a background in background in both B2C and B2B marketing and has worked internationally in Europe, North America and Asia. He moved into the travel industry and to Thailand 8 years ago, after completing his MBA from INSEAD. Like most people who get into the travel industry Simon is an avid traveller.
Bloggers
Matt Gibson
Matt Gibson is the Outbound President of the Professional Travel Bloggers Association, a nonprofit organization that works to help travel industry and brands meet and work together. He’s also an adventure travel writer and photographer, award-winning blogger, and CEO of UpThink, an agency that helps travel companies develop their blogging and social media marketing strategies and work with travel bloggers.
Matt regularly gives seminars and moderates panels about blogging, social media, and inbound marketing for organizations such as ITB Berlin, ITB Asia, Arabian Travel Mart, HSMAI, and others. UpThink has been featured by publications like Business Insider and Yahoo and Matt’s writings on blogging and social media marketing have been published by the Adventure Travel Trade Association, Arabian Travel Market, and the Singapore Straits Times.
Matt’s travel writing and photography have been seen in publications such as AFAR, En Voyage, Action Asia, and The Huffington Post, and many more.
Sabrina Iovino
Sab is the creator of JustOneWayTicket.com, a travel & lifestyle blog, focused on extraordinary places. She traveled to more than 60 countries around the globe and shares stories, videos and photographs along the way
Stella Bella
Stella is a Wellness Consultant and Co-founder of Beyond Latte, the delicious wellness latte that relief stress of the daily grind.
Before starting Beyond Latte, Stella spent 4 years building the natural and organic community in Bangkok and was the founding member of the Thailand Farmers market at K village. Her passion in organic led her to be an influencer and landed her to be the brand ambassador for Lorna Jane Thailand as well as an independent consultant for Tencent helping bridge and build blogger, influencers relationships and run social media campaigns for Ipick a Social Food application and Voov a live streaming application. She also had a live streaming health channel on Voov before relocating to Sydney Australia.
She currently serves as the Managing Partner at Siam Smart Herb Global, managing international relations and global partnerships.
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