The Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) is a unique policy-oriented research organization dedicated to increasing the positive global impact of responsible tourism. CREST assists governments, policy makers, tourism businesses, nonprofit organizations, and international agencies with finding solutions to critical issues confronting tourism, the world’s largest service industry. CREST provides interdisciplinary analysis and innovative solutions through research, field projects, publications, consultancies, conferences, courses, and documentary films, recognizing tourism’s potential as a tool for poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation.
As a global leader in tourism education and research, The George Washington University's International Institute of Tourism Studies has been guiding businesses, communities, governments and nonprofits toward sustainability for thirty years. We advance critical industry issues through thought leadership and research, and provide professional-level certificate programs, courses and workshops in destination management and cultural heritage tourism.
Martha Honey
Executive director, Center for Responsible Travel (CREST)
Richard Bangs
Chief creative officer, White Nile Media and co-founder, Mountain Travel Sobek
Mary-Elizabeth Gifford
Immediate past president, Washington Spa Alliance and board of directors, Demeter-USA
Eric Kuhn
Washington-based communications and development specialist
Alice Marshall
President, Alice Marshall Public Relations
Andrea Pinabell
President, Southface
Mike Robbins
Partner, The Tourism Company
Samantha Bray
Managing director, Center for Responsible Travel (CREST)
Rebekah Stewart
Director of communications & outreach, Center for Responsible Travel (CREST)
Kelsey Frenkiel
Program associate, Center for Responsible Travel (CREST)
Seleni Matus
Executive director, International Institute of Tourism Studies, the George Washington University School of Business
Carol Goodstein
Communications consultant, Carol Goodstein Consulting