Ewan Cluckie is the Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of Tripseed, a social purpose Destination Management Company based in Thailand. Tripseed crafts refined, tailor-made travel experiences for the international travel trade, while reinvesting over 50% of profits into initiatives that support local communities, champion gender equity, and promote economic transparency. A passionate advocate for responsible tourism, Ewan led the development of Tripseed’s pioneering Economic Distribution Disclosure Initiative and helped the company become one of only a handful of tourism businesses to join the Social Enterprise Thailand Association. With a background in global tour operator marketing and a Master’s in Marketing from Manchester Business School, Ewan now focuses on advancing inclusive, ethical, and legally compliant tourism practices across Southeast Asia. At the 2025 Global Meaningful Travel Summit, he is representing Tripseed’s commitment to building a more equitable and accountable future for travel.

Vincie Ho, Ph.D. is the Founder and Executive Director of RISE Travel Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education. She also serves as faculty at Antioch University, teaching human rights for their graduate programs in humane education. A disruptor, nonprofit leader, seasoned educator and woman immigrant of color with a hearing disability, Vincie is dedicated to driving systems change and fostering a community of conscious travelers through creating space for critical and intersectional conversations on power dynamics and justice issues in travel and beyond. In recognition of her impactful work, Vincie was nominated by tourism industry peers and honored on TravelPulse's prestigious List of Most Influential Women in Travel for 2024.

Kelly Galaski is a sustainable tourism professional with 25 years’ experience across the hospitality & tourism for- and non-profit sectors. From 11 years Kelly worked with rural and Indigenous communities on community tourism experience development at Planeterra, and served as Director of Global Programs for four years.  During that time she also developed responsible travel policies and sustainability practices for G Adventures.  From 2022 to 2024 Kelly served as a Sustainable Tourism Specialist at the Travel Foundation, working with destinations globally toward achieving climate-positive and equitable tourism goals via destination stewardship strategies and capacity building programs.  In 2024 Kelly returned to Planeterra where she now serves as Senior Director of Operations & Head of Global Impact. Kelly is passionate about the role tourism can play in community development, uplifting marginalized and underrepresented people and communities worldwide as well as in conservation, nature restoration, and climate resilience.

Collaboration for Empowering Responsible Community-based Tourism: from Local to Global

Miss Wanvipa Phanumat has been involved in sustainable tourism management and community-based tourism development in Thailand for more than 20 years both in academic, public, and private sector. With a strong interest in sustainable tourism and belief in community empowerment, she is currently working as Chief Operating Officer at Local Alike Co., Ltd., a social enterprise committed to elevating the quality of life in local communities through sustainable and regenerative tourism. Previously, she served as the Director for Office of Community-based Tourism at Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Public Organization). She has been working with more than 100 communities around Thailand to develop sustainable community-based tourism projects with the objective of making sure the local community can yield the benefits from tourism development in the long term.

Privatized Conservation: Designing Land with Elephants and People in Mind

Impact Investing

Sarah Payne is the Senior Director of Impact & Operations at the UnTours Foundation, which has spent over 30 years investing its entire endowment into changemaking businesses around the world. The UnTours Foundation is also the proud owner of the world’s first Certified B Corporation, UnTours, a slow travel company that donates 100% of its profits to the foundation. Joining the team in 2023 as the foundation launched its Reset Tourism Fund, Sarah leads the management of the foundation's investment portfolio with a focus on providing flexible, affordable capital to small tourism businesses. Sarah has an interdisciplinary background history, business, and economic development which led her to study social entrepreneurship while earning her Master of Business Administration in Economic Development from Eastern University. She spent her early career consulting with businesses to improve their social and environmental impact, believing passionately in the power of people to use business as a force for good.