Meaningful Travel Roadshow: Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Pittsburgh: Reinvention Through Sustainability
Join us on our second stop of the 2025 Meaningful Travel Roadshow: Pittsburgh, PA!
Pittsburgh is redefining itself from an industrial powerhouse to a hub of green innovation, sustainability, and culture. This stop on the Meaningful Travel Roadshow will highlight how the travel and tourism industry actively drives and thrives on urban revitalization, fostering stronger community connections and transforming industrial spaces into vibrant destinations. From reclaimed industrial sites to dynamic public spaces along its rivers, attendees will see how Pittsburgh’s thoughtful redevelopment creates places that engage both locals and visitors. Discover how history, heritage, and progress intersect to shape a brighter, greener future in the Steel City.
What is the Meaningful Travel Roadshow?
Tourism Cares is hitting the road in 2025 with the Meaningful Travel Roadshow, a series of programs designed to broaden the industry’s understanding of sustainable tourism through events held across three North American locations. By bridging these communities with industry leaders, the Roadshow aims to empower travel professionals to make smarter, more sustainable decisions that support the evolving travel landscape. Each Roadshow stop offers a full day packed with actionable learning sessions, hands-on experiences, and cross-sector networking opportunities designed to inspire and add more tools to your sustainable tourism toolkit.
Attendance & Cost
The Roadshow is an intimate event of 50-75 attendees and open to travel professionals across all sectors.
$229 for Tourism Cares members
$279 for non-members
Sponsorship Information
All sponsors receive the full Base Benefits Package, which includes:
Complimentary registrations to attend (based on level)
Listing in press release and media communications
Individual attendee recognition as a sponsor on-site
Logo/listing recognition on-site at the program, Tourism Cares website, event app and event communications
*If you are interested in sponsorship, click below or email carrie.hodgen@tourismcares.org
Roadshow Stop Sample Schedule*
Welcome & Education Sessions
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The Energy Innovation Center
Kick off the day with a welcome coffee, followed by engaging education sessions and workshops designed to inspire and inform. Wrap up the morning with a networking lunch, offering a chance to connect with peers and local changemakers.
Networking Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Enjoy a local lunch and get to know your fellow attendees and mingle with local partners and changemakers.
Experiences / Tours / Activities
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Attendees will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the community through curated experiences and activities that showcase the area's unique cultural heritage, sustainable practices, and local leaders.
Kayaking with Venture Outdoors
Pittsburgh Sites & Tastes with Burgh Bits and Bites Food Tours
Networking Reception
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Attendees will enjoy a networking reception featuring locally-sourced food and drink, celebrating the destination’s flavors and providing an opportunity to connect with local changemakers and industry leaders.
*Subject to change
Thank You to Our Host & Sponsors
SPOTLIGHT: VENTURE OUTDOORS | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Destination Partner: Visit Pittsburgh
Venture Outdoors is an outdoor recreation non-profit with a mission to remove barriers to the outdoors for everyone. They believe that, together, they can help remove barriers that prevent people from connecting with the outdoors. A lack of access to equipment shouldn't stop people from exploring. A lack of instruction shouldn't keep students from learning to bike for the first time. A lack of community shouldn't prevent women and minority runners from joining the race.