GEORGIA RICKARD

Georgia Rickard is a multi-award-winning travel editor, journalist and content strategist. The former editor of Australia’s largest selling travel magazine, Australian Traveller has contributed to News Limited, Conde Nast, Fairfax Media, BBC, AFAR, and several newspapers of note, including The Times. She is a SKY NEWS travel expert, has presented travel for CNN to an audience of 135 million people and has been shortlisted for Editor of the Year at the Australian Magazine Awards.

As contributing editor to Tourism Australia she led a team of 20 of Australia’s most respected travel journalists to deliver the million-dollar overhaul of, and consequent editorial management for Australia.com, creating the stories that Australia tells to the world through its immediate social audience of over 12 million through, and extensive global PR network. She has appeared on all major Australian television networks and is an accomplished keynote speaker who has hosted events for major corporations, including Apple and Accor.

She is co-founder of The Travel Bootcamp (in partnership with Intrepid Travel and Olympus) and The Modern Travel Media Summit, sponsored by TravMedia, a Destination Gold Coast Content Awards ambassador, a travel curator for Fairfax Media and correspondent for Airbnb and a featured Airbnb Insider.