{"id":17704,"date":"2017-03-27T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2017-03-30T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:07:05","slug":"conscious-travel-founder-deliver-keynote-mekong-travel-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2017\/03\/conscious-travel-founder-deliver-keynote-mekong-travel-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious Travel founder to deliver keynote at Mekong Travel Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Conscious Travel founder to deliver keynote at Mekong Travel Forum\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainability-leaders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Conscious-travel-expert-Anna-Pollock.jpg\" width=\"1094\" height=\"678\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>nna Pollock, the founder of the sustainable tourism consultancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conscious.travel\">Conscious Travel<\/a> and winner of the Visionary of the Year Award from the Canadian tourism industry, is to deliver the keynote speech at this year&#8217;s Mekong Tourism Forum. The theme of this year&#8217;s event is\u00a0 \u201cProsper with Purpose\u201d, and Anna&#8217;s speech is titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mekongtourismforum.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/27\/passion-purpose-prosperity-anna-pollock-to-keynote-forum\/\">Passion + Purpose = Prosperity.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer strength is her ability to see the whole \u201cbig picture\u201d and help others make sense of their rapidly and dramatically changing world,&#8221; explained\u00a0Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) Executive Director Jens Thraenhart. &#8220;Ms Pollock\u2019s work is very much in line with the unique model of MTF 2017&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Mekong Tourism Forum is designed to provide a cooperative platform for stakeholders in the tourism industry to discuss the development, marketing and promotion of travel to, from and within the Greater Mekong Subregion. This year the forum takes place in Luang Prabang, Laos from 6-9 June, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mekongtourismforum.org\/\">read more information on the Mekong Tourism Forum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable tourism thinker and consultant Anna Pollock will talk about how focussing on passion and purpose are the way for tourism to achieve prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,16,17,534],"tags":[520],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conscious Travel founder to deliver keynote at Mekong Travel Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sustainable tourism thinker and consultant Anna Pollock will talk about how focussing on passion and purpose are the 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