🙋♀️ Creative, self-driven and highly diligent marketing professional with passion for tourism, travel, education, tech.
✅ Open to work: Long-term contract projects where I can contribute with ideas and creativity. Let's talk!
If you don't want to hire a full-time employee, let's chat! I'm a B2B Tourism Marketing, Communications and Events Strategist with interests in travel startups and organic growth marketing. I've been an executive coordination roles leading campaigns from A to Z, communication with leaders, entrepreneurs, organizations.
🚀 At the moment:
• Content Club coordinator at Stay22
• Business Development Strategist at The Action Sports Translator
🧳 Previous Experience:
• Led the growth of 2024 Social Entrepreneurship Competition in Tourism driving 150+ applications
• Managed Travel Massive's global content, campaigns and a community of 80,000 tourism professionals
• Led the content strategies for RaizUp's travel recruitment, education and consulting services
• Created www.SofiaExpats.com – weekly newsletter for expats and foreigners in Sofia
• Organised hundreds of community events for Coworking Days Sofia, Coworking Bansko, Bansko Nomad Fest, Snowboarding Girls Bansko, Travel Bloggers Bulgaria, Travel Massive Sofia, Travel Massive Global
🏂 Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Surfing, Skating
📍 From Bulgaria – Works Globally 10+ years
🎓 PhD, Tourism Economics.
Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maria-stoyanova-ph-d-681a7174/
The community has been an eye-opener of what the travel industry can be all about – open, collaborative, sharing, and caring about the future of travel. I've attended several Travel Massive events in Europe before joining the team 5 years ago. I've met incredible professionals, worked on amazing tourism projects, and have been able to learn every step of the way.
A nice mountain where I can snowboard and a nice beach where I can surf. I've recently really enjoyed Greece for its hospitality, great food, quality life, and adventure and outdoor sports opportunities.
Will spend 2-3 months in Japan in winter 2024 - snowboarding and exploring.
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👋 Maria Stoyanova, Tourism Marketing & Content Freelancer → Stay22, SofiaExpats.com, Travel Massive Bulgaria, Travel Bloggers Bulgaria Association → I want to connect with: Fellow Travel Massive members, Travel bloggers who want to learn more about St... show more
This is really fun! I've added my places on the map – looks like I've been to 32 places. It's hard to count the US when I only visited NYC for 1 week :D But it's understandable. I couldn't find the easter eggs :/ 🐣
Although not specifically travel-related, I use sports apps when I travel – Komoot for finding hiking trails, Strava for tracking all my outdoor adventures, recently I'm using Slopes for tracking my snowboarding activity (almost daily in winter). I ha... show more
What are your favourite travel apps for 2024? 1 month ago
It's been really interesting and motivating to be part of this journey!
Just signed up for this newsletter and saw the previous edition – so I wanted to say nice work 🙌 Saw a few really good resources and updates inside!