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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
It was fantastic to attend my first LA Travel Massive in many years. I had a blast! A big thanks to @mike-schibel for organizing the event and bringing along his Travel With Meaning community. It was a fun evening of meeting new people and reconnecting.
Yes but you really need to set up meetings ahead of attending with the exhibitors, using the WTM networking app. There's great networking events (including Travel Massive and others) but you should also be using the days effectively, as WTM is BIG and y... show more
Hi Alex, thanks for introducing yourself and welcome to the community. Hope you can make it to our LA event next week (I'm in town for it!) https://www.travelmassive.com/events/los-angeles-travel-industry-social-at-paloma-venice-4269985900
Los Angeles Travel Massive 7 days ago
It's that time of year when World Travel Market London (4-6 November) rolls around! 👉 Feel free to share if you're attending, speaking, exhibiting, hosting an informal meetup or event, or anything else worth sharing about WTM London 🚀 Join our WTM Soc... show more
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
