The Travel Coach Network is bringing together six inspirational women from tourism and hospitality who bring an authentic voice to the industry and are leading with vision, creativity, and purpose, for a thought-provoking virtual conversation exploring why the future of travel is becoming more, not less, human.
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Together, we'll discuss how travelers are redefining the purpose of travel, why emotional connection is becoming the ultimate luxury, and what destinations, brands, and industry leaders can do to create experiences that technology can never replace.
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We will also explore:
- Why travel is becoming part of life's biggest decisions
- Where transformative travel is headed or is it another buzz word
- How AI will increase the value of authentic experiences
- Why today's travelers are seeking meaning over bucket lists
- Why we are seeing an uptick in “belonging-led” experiences, Heritage journeys, and travel for reinvention
- How to support travelers who are seeking experiences that reflect who they're becoming, not just where they've been
- Why spontaneous moments, local culture, and genuine human connection remain travel's greatest differentiators
- What the future of human-centered travel could look like across the industry
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Whether you work in tourism and hospitality, or simply believe in the power of travel to better our lives and the world, this conversation will offer fresh and authentic perspectives on the future of our industry.
MEET THE SPEAKERS!
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Founder & CEO, About Partners
Linda Bekoe is the CEO and Founder of About Partners, a global hospitality consultancy specialising in commercial strategy, sales activation, and market growth for hotels and serviced apartments. Supporting over 400 properties across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America, About Partners helps hospitality brands strengthen corporate, MICE, and luxury leisure performance through commercially driven strategies.
With more than 20 years of experience in hospitality leadership and business development, Linda is known for connecting hotels with the right markets, partnerships, and revenue opportunities to drive sustainable growth.
Linda also serves as Chair of the Inclusion and Culture Committee at the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), championing diversity, cultural intelligence, and inclusive leadership across the travel industry. She has been recognised as one of the Top 50 Women in Travel by The Business Travel Magazine and received the WINiT by GBTA DEI Leadership Award.
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Delia Moisa
Founder & CEO, Personiti
Delia Moisa is the Founder of Personiti, a personality-based travel platform rethinking how people discover travel experiences. Her work sits at the intersection of travel psychology and sustainable tourism, matching the right travellers with the right experiences while supporting more efficient tourism and healthier local economies.
Her PhD research in Sustainable Tourism Management explored traveller behaviour and the future of personalised travel to enhance sustainable destination management. Through Personiti, she is building a future where travel is guided not by endless options or the most popular recommendations, but by understanding people first.
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Transformation Expert & Founder of Integr8
Dr. Suzy Ross is the founder of Integr8, a consulting, training, and certification practice at the forefront of the emerging science of transformation and integration. As a professor, author, and social scientist, she has spent more than 20 years studying what happens before, during, and after life-changing experiences, work that produced the Figure-8 Model of Transformation and her book, The Map to Wholeness. Through Integr8, she trains and certifies practitioners and facilitators to design and guide experiences that create real, lasting transformation, not just a memorable trip, and advises organizational leaders across travel, wellness, and hospitality on the integration infrastructure that turns those experiences into loyalty and return guests.
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Founder of Kaer® | Luxury Wellness Travel
Barbara den Bak is the founder of Kaer, a luxury wellness travel brand curating exclusive private wellness journeys and retreats at boutique hotels across Europe. Kaer's approach treats travel as a catalyst for real change, physical, mental, and emotional, moving beyond the destination to focus on outcome and transformation.
Barbara built her expertise over years of founding and successfully exiting several renowned brands in the wellness and fitness space, and now brings that experience into Kaer's model of curated, high-end travel. She's also currently developing a collection of wellness residences in Portugal's Algarve, extending her approach to slow living beyond travel itself.
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Strategic Advisor & Community-Builder
Rebecca is an award-winning former managing director of a travel business, now advising businesses, entrepreneurs and the global travel industry on how to interpret trends, navigate the current marketplace and create unique value to thrive. Through her writing and live interviews, she has become a respected thought leader on transformative travel, investigating what it is, its economic value, and its potential for individuals, families, business and society. And through her virtual and in-person gatherings, she advances the conversation by forging deeper connection and collaboration amongst participants. She is currently on the Board of Content Advisors for the World Travel Market in London, the world's most influential travel and tourism event, with 46,000+ attendees from 180+ countries.
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Founder & Principal, Hospitality in Bloom and Kith & Kinship
Heather Dunwoody is a hospitality innovator and ecosystem strategist who works with visionary, independent operators across boutique, lifestyle, and outdoor hospitality. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: hospitality should change you, not just house you.Â
Through her studio, Hospitality in Bloom, and her latest venture, Kith & Kinship—poised as her strategy greenhouse—she helps operators trade “best practices” for something uncopyable: hospitality with a pulse, a point of view, and pricing power to match.
Her lens comes from a career spanning nearly every facet of hospitality and beyond — cannabis, drinks education, agency‑building, market research — a cross‑disciplinary edge that lets her connect dots most operators don't even know belong in the same conversation. Where others see rooms and revenue, she sees identity, ecosystems, and the untapped levers hiding in plain sight.
Her north star stays the same: help bold operators build hospitality that feels alive, earns its keep, and doesn’t just house people — it moves them.
LinkedIn is where you’ll find Heather in her element, writing in the open, thinking out loud, and treating hospitality like the craft it is.
