Travel as a Force for Good, the Role of Travel Media, and Uncrowded Destinations to Visit with AFAR Co-Founder Greg Sullivan

Zero To Travel Podcast

Jason Moore

Places & Travel, Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture

4.6 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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What effect do you want your travels to have on the world? Today I'm joined by Co-Founder and CEO of AFAR, Greg Sullivan. AFAR is an award-winning travel media brand making a positive impact on the world through high-quality storytelling that inspires, empowers, and enriches travelers who care. In this episode, Greg gives us his take on the state of travel, the roles and responsibilities of travel media, and how travel is a force for good. He shares the destinations you should consider visiting before they get too crowded and business advice for working remotely and getting started in the travel industry. Has travel made you more empathetic? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you will share them by sending me an audio message. Premium Passport: Want access to the private Zero To Travel podcast feed, a monthly bonus episode (decided on by YOU), exclusive content, direct access to me to answer your questions, and more? Click Here To Try Premium Passport For Only $1 Tune in to Learn: Why Greg dropped everything to go back to school and his experience studying abroad in his 40s The conclusions he came to through studying philosophy and ethics and how travel is the best teacher of all Greg's core values as an individual and how travel influences your ethics How AFAR came to be and the transformative trip that sparked this journey The early days of AFAR and the challenges of running a magazine The meaning behind their mission of travel as a force for good When travel media does more harm than good, and the biggest issues in travel media and tourism When it's better to stay home How AI will change the industry Greg's experience with failure and advice for working remotely, managing a distributed team, and scaling a company His thoughts on living in balance and protecting your time Advice for finding your place in the travel industry Choosing to visit places during moments of radical change Destinations that exceeded Greg's expectations and a moment that changed his thoughts on travel And so much more Resources: Join Zero To Travel Premium Passport Subscribe to our FREE newsletter Check out AFAR Magazine Listen to the Unpacked by AFAR podcast Want More? Top 5 Countries for Solo Travelers, the Future of Tourism, and Making an Impact with Matt Berna from Intrepid Travel Sustainable Travel 101 (How to be a Better Traveler) w/ Richard Hammond 3 Travel Trends You Should Know w/ Paige McClanahan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Travel is a wonderful world. Talk about an industry that's just great. I mean, it's all these people that really, we all end up having to deal with commerce, for lack of better term, we have to pay our bills. But at the heart of it, it is about this transformation. It's about what travel does to us. It's lifelong learning, empathy, all those things is what it's
0:24.4	about. That was Greg Sullivan sharing a little bit about his love for travel and working in the
0:30.2	travel industry. Greg is the co-founder and CEO of Afar, which is an award-winning travel media brand.
0:37.0	If you haven't been to Afar.com, I encourage you to check them out.
0:40.3	Did a recent collaboration with them on their podcast Unpacked, where we published my
0:45.8	interview series with Tom Tersich, who walked around the world.
0:48.9	And I thought since that was going live around this time, it would be cool to invite Greg
0:53.8	on the show, to get his take
0:55.5	on the state of travel, some of the roles and responsibilities of travel media. And one of the
1:02.6	core values over at afar is this idea that travel is a force for good. So I wanted to ask him
1:08.6	what that means to him, why he believes that, why that is a
1:13.0	foundation for the work that they do over at afar. And of course, we do a destination dive. I wanted
1:20.9	to get his advice on some of the places we should consider visiting now before they get too crowded.
1:26.2	You're going to hear all of that and much more in the interview segment today. I hope you enjoy listening in on the conversation.
1:33.7	And if you'd like, please stick around on the back end of that interview segment. I'll share
1:38.1	my favorite takeaway from this conversation with Greg. And it's one that can certainly change your
1:43.4	travel experience on the ground.
1:45.1	Plus, I'll leave you with a wonderful quote that sums up this entire episode.
1:49.9	Let's get into it, shall we?
1:51.4	Buckle up, strap in.
1:52.5	Thanks for being here.
1:53.3	And welcome to the Zero to Travel Podcast, my friend.
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