Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀
Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (2016-2025)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
Thanks for the fantastic writeup Esther and I'm very glad you got so much value from your first Travel Massive event. Thanks to Sam and the team at Lagos Travel Massive for creating these incredible events for the community. I've just ordered Otobong... show more
Hi NYC members, Our friends from Stripe are hosting a hospitality and travel leaders happy-hour next week on Monday, September 29, just before Stripe Tour New York on Tuesday. Meet with leaders and executives from across the travel and hospitality sp... show more
New York City Travel Massive 13 days ago
This week was so exciting and rewarding in so many ways! From Melbourne, Sydney to Brisbane - it felt like an amazing race with our speakers as we hosted these events each consecutive day. A big thanks to all our members for coming out to support these... show more
good catch, thanks for spotting
by the ways — Plan better road trips 20 days ago
Hi Rain, thanks for sharing, this looks really cool! Can you explain to everyone what n8n is? Do you have any specific examples of travel automations you can share from your Skool community?