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April 23, 2025 69 mins

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In this episode of Soul of Travel, Season 6: Women's Wisdom + Mindful Travel, presented by @journeywoman_original, Soul of Travel listener and past guest Becki Rupp would like to share her favorite conversation with Norie Quintos. 

Norie Quintos is a consultant for the travel industry on communications strategy, media relations, custom content, and messaging. She helps destinations and travel companies find and tell their stories through communications audits, seminars and training, coaching, and print and pixel projects. An award-winning journalist, she is a contributing editor to National Geographic Travel Media. Her interest areas are cultural tourism, indigenous tourism, regenerative tourism, diversity/equity/inclusion in travel, and transformational travel. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Adventure Travel Conservation Fund and an advisor to Adventure Media, the Transformational Travel Council, Impact Travel Alliance, and Giving Way. Norie is the former executive editor of National Geographic Traveler and was an editor at U.S. News and World Report and Caribbean Travel and Life.

Christine and Norie discuss:

•  Why it is the responsibility of travel content creators to tell a more complete story

•  Slow travel and why it matters to destinations & travelers

•  How to use travel as a place to create peace and find a sense of belonging in travel

•  The beauty of finding a travel brand that supports impactful causes and empowers 

Join Becki and Christine now for this soulful replay with Norie Quintos.

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