indigenousconsulting

Ron's Indigenous Tourism Consulting Proposal
related: indigenous, usa

A proposal from ron mader
I would like to offer my services in consulting with proponents of Indigenous Tourism

**My Background:** I am not Indigenous. I am from Indiana. And I am an ally of Indigenous tourism around the world. For 20+ years my work educates visitors about the value of visiting people who want to be visited. I do this through online writing, photography, some work in magazines and books and most importantly through educating and ally-ing with Indigenous voices. I want to share a passion for Indigenous Tourism not as an add-on to an itinerary but the Signature Item of what we learn when we travel from Point A to somewhere else.

For those interested, I offer social web workshops which can be requested on demand in person or online. I also am a public speaker and give presentations on topics that go deep into social web networking and show lessons learned from the ITBW Award and Indigenous Peoples Week.

Over the past 20 years of Planeta.com, I've led webinars and training for members of Indigenous Tourism Rights Association and Aboriginal Tourism Australia. From 2001-2013 I was based in Oaxaca, México , where I hosted a discussion series and an annual tourism fair. There were a number of innovative events including free web workshops for artisans and tour providers.

Since 2007 I have collaborated with the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in launching the Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award. The winners have continued to collaborate, creating Indigenous Peoples Week (2010-). And this year I focused attention on southwestern USA and delivered two days of workshops at the [|Educational Technology Conference] organized by Native Innovation. My question -- what if we could connect the enthusiasm from educators and students with those in the hospitality sector?

My view
The majority of travelers have little to poor conception of Indigenous Tourism. It takes building and building upon awareness that great progress can be made. We are born at the right time to use digital online channels to provide and amplify Indigenous voices.

An aside. We need a new form of consultancy that works with people long beyond the parameters of a specific grant. People I've met thanks to speaking gigs in Oaxaca and Australia are just now coming online Facebook and Twitter. They are figuring what to share and what to do with feedback. What are the guidelines and recommendations for those operating Indigenous tourism services? What are the guidelines and recommendations for those keen and curious about visiting? Indigenous artisans and tour providers can benefit from using the social web. Missing are the training and incentives necessary to keep interest actualizing benefits. What I offer is a mixed set of services

**Free -** Planeta Wiki Editing, Flickr Group invitations, YouTube hangouts

**Premium -** Honorariums or retainers are requested of more complicated workshops/speaking engagements. Presentations need to cover all travel expenses. For example, if you would like to contract my services to address a conference, I would ask that we co-create a page on this wiki. In addition, we would use the full range of social web networking tools to promote, document and recap the event.

Premium services could also include the creation of new awards — what if we developed a juried and popular vote for best U.S. or city state promotion? What if we were able to convince the CBD to renew the ITBW Award? Could we use next year’s conference venue to spotlight the winners?

Concluding, here's my online resume:

Ron Mader ... is a recognized American leader communication catalyst loves what's local thrives on collaboration prefers to travel slowly ignores trending topics [|herds cats] [|rides giraffes]

author of the 'Mexico Adventures in Nature' and the winner of two Lente de Plata awards given by the Mexican government correspondent of Transitions Abroad is the Communications Director for TAPAS (Imagine tourism in protected areas as environmentally, socially and economically sustainable Is the Innovation Award winner from TIES (2010)
 * Professionally **

Love to learn new words
 * Personally **

Email: editor@planeta.com Twitter: [|@ronmader] Google+ []
 * Contact **

Education
Bachelors Degree in Communications, Indiana University, 1987 Masters Degree, Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1990

Awards
2010 [|Innovation Awards presented by the International Ecotourism Society] 2008 [|American Environmental Leaders]includes a profile of Ron for his work in environmental journalism and community activism. 1999 and 2002 Presidents Fox and Zedillo presented Ron with the Lente de Plata Award

Sharing Cultures, Native Innovation, USA 2015 [|All Travel is Local], Mexico, 2013 CoP11 Biodiversity and Indigenous Tourism Workshop, India, 2012 Responsible Tourism in Cities, South Africa 2011 Chiapas Workshop, 2010 ITBW Award Workshop, USA 2010 Tourism and the Web, Ecuador 2008 Aboriginal Australia Tourism, 2007 Guadalajara Workshop, 2006 Mexico City Workshop, 2005 Oaxaca City Workshop, 2002
 * Previous Workshops **

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