The Adventure Calls Podcast
This is a show with queer folks talking about moving, living and thriving abroad, and relocation specialists in countries around the world who can help you to do the same.
Putting queer folks front and center, Adventure Calls podcasts empowers LGBTQ+ folks and their families to move, live and thrive abroad. Host Jess Drucker interviews experts on relocation, immigration, nomadic and other travel-based lifestyles, international education, finding global queer communities and all the grainy details of actually making a life abroad.
The Adventure Calls Podcast
The post-pandemic future of black travel with Martinique Lewis of the Black Travel Alliance | Call from Oakland, CA
Martinique Lewis is a Diversity in Travel Consultant who works tirelessly to ensure that diversity is not just a buzzword in the travel industry. She blogs at MartySanDiego.com, where she is the creator of the Diversity in Travel Report Card holding the industry to a higher and more transparent standard. Marty has been working with tourist boards and travel brands for years, first for free and today as one of the co-founders of the recently-formed Black Travel Alliance. The mission of the Black Travel Alliance is to support Black content creators around the world and increase their representation in the travel industry, including but not limited to employment, conferences, and media.
In this interview, Marty discusses her own path in the travel industry, who in the industry currently scores highly on her diversity in travel report cards, and the future of black travel post-pandemic and hopefully post-paradigm shift as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement. She also gives us a list of over 20 Black content creators to follow off the top of her head - she is an amazing resource and connector. We also discuss Black-led tours available around the world, and Marty encourages listeners, when you next take a trip to a new city or a new country, to consider making at least one of the tours you book one that looks at the history or heritage of that place through the lens of the Black community, or African Diaspora, of that spot.
There has never been more energy piping through this podcast, so sit back, strap in and prepare to be mesmerized by the inspiring and driven Marty Lewis.
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