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Travel Unity makes the world of travel welcoming for all people through innovative approaches to education, professional development, and community building.

10/19/2026

Tickets are now available for the **2026 Travel Unity Awards Reception!**

📅 Monday, December 14, 2026 | 6–9 PM
📍 Greats of Craft: LIC Warehouse, Long Island City, Queens

Join us to celebrate the people and organizations recognized in this year's Travel Unity Awards. We'll have an awards presentation, food and drinks, and time to connect with others across the travel industry.

**Early bird tickets are $75, limited to just 25 tickets!**

Special rates are also available for Travel Unity members, students, and educators.

🎟️ Get tickets: https://bit.ly/2026TUawardstix

If ticket cost is a barrier, we're offering a limited number of reduced-cost and fully sponsored tickets by application.

Apply for ticket assistance: https://bit.ly/2026TUticketsupport

10/19/2026

Applications are open for Travel Unity’s Fall 2026 Future Leaders Cohort.

The cohort includes three free virtual sessions for students, recent graduates, career changers, and emerging professionals interested in learning more about careers across the travel industry.

Participants will hear directly from travel professionals, learn about different roles and career paths, ask questions, and, after successfully completing the program, have an opportunity to be paired with a mentor.

Nov. 9: Sales & Marketing
Nov. 23: Finance & Operations
Dec. 7: Tour Guides & Tour Directors

All sessions are 6:00–7:30 PM ET.

Applications are due Oct. 28: https://bit.ly/TUfutureleaders

Please share with anyone who may be interested!

10/17/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Travel Unity Inclusive Travel Storytelling Award winners and honorable mentions!

This year's honorees are helping tell a wider range of travel stories, from accessible outdoor adventures and alcohol-free travel to the experiences of older women travelers and Black communities.

🏆 **WINNERS**

**Independent Creator:** Cassandra Washington of Sustah-Girl Chronicles

**Editorial & Publishing:** Adventure.com

**Destination & Organization:** Visit North Alabama (Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Association), for Accessible-Friendly North Alabama

⭐ **HONORABLE MENTIONS**

**Independent Creator:** Debbie North (Debbie North) of Access the Dales

**Editorial & Publishing:** Julia Hammond Travel Writing, for *Seeing Texas Differently: A Traveleyes Tour with Visually Impaired Travellers*, and Teresa Bergen, for *Sober Travel Handbook*

**Destination & Organization:** Visit BLK RVA, a program of Visit Richmond VA

Congratulations to everyone recognized!

See all seven honorees and their graphics:
https://travelunity.org/2026awards

10/09/2026

Congratulations to Becoming rentABLE and Wowzitude, co-winners of the 2026 Travel Unity Organizational Initiative Award!

Becoming rentABLE is taking the guesswork out of accessible short-term rentals through standardized assessments, verified accessibility information, and its Mobility and Cognitive Verified badges.

Wowzitude Memory Travels™ offers livestream, story-first, sensory-focused travel for people living with dementia and their caregivers, led by dementia-informed local guides and supported by TripKits™.

Congratulations to both organizations for tying for this award!

https://travelunity.org/2026awards

10/08/2026

Congratulations to Simon Darcy, Tracey J. Dickson and Stephen Schweinsberg, winners of the 2026 Travel Unity Academic Research Award for “Co-designing accessible tourism WITH the disability community for embodied choice,” published in Tourism Geographies (2025).

The paper reviews accessible tourism literature on protected areas from 2010 to 2022 and finds that people with disability were rarely involved as equal partners. It then documents how the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service developed its first Accessible Parks Policy through workshops in which people with disability were the majority of participants.

The policy informs access work across more than 900 protected areas.

Congratulations, Simon, Tracey and Stephen!

Learn more: https://travelunity.org/2026awards

10/07/2026

Voting is open for the 2026 Travel Unity Inclusion Champion Award.

This year’s finalists are:

Justin Barnette — Visit South Africa

Julia Cohen Ribeiro — Lunfarda Travel / El Tambo Afro

Dr. Damien L. Duchamp — Hospitalented

Tami Fairweather — WITS / The Fairweather Experience

Josh Heinz — Visit Greater Palm Springs

Sherry Rupert — American Indigenous Tourism Association

Dr. Antony King Fung Wong — The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - PolyU

Learn more about the finalists and cast your vote:

https://travelunity.org/2026champion

Voting closes Friday, October 23 at 11:59 PM ET.

10/07/2026

Congratulations to Amine Gabbouj, winner of the 2026 Travel Unity Young Professional Award.

As Program Manager at IGLTA Foundation // IGLTA Business, Amine’s work spans research, international fellowships, education, and programs supporting entrepreneurs and tourism leaders, particularly in emerging destinations.

Based in Morocco, Amine brings perspectives from emerging destinations into global tourism conversations while building connections across cultures and regions. His work focuses on creating more inclusive and accessible opportunities within the tourism industry, alongside research exploring tourism development, travel trends, and the role of the private sector in emerging destinations.

Over the past year, his leadership and contribution to the industry have continued to grow, including recognition as an Attitude 101 Trailblazer and his appointment to the Destinations International Foundation Board of Trustees.

A well-deserved recognition of Amine’s continued commitment to building a more inclusive and connected global tourism industry.

Learn more: https://travelunity.org/2026awards

10/05/2026

The finalists for the 2026 Travel Unity Award for Organizational Initiative are:

⭐ Accessibility Accelerator

⭐ Becoming rentABLE

⭐ Greether

⭐ The Porter Voice Collective

⭐ Wowzitude

The Organizational Initiative Award recognizes work by an organization that is helping make travel more welcoming and accessible.

Congratulations to all five finalists!

Learn more about the 2026 Travel Unity Awards:

https://www.travelunity.org/2026awards

10/05/2026

The 2026 Travel Unity Community Impact Award finalists are:

Cristina Archila, Visit Saint Paul — Amplified an African immigrant-owned business campaign through Visit Saint Paul and coordinated volunteer deliveries for Saint Paul grocers and immigrants during Operation Metro Surge.

G Adventures — Runs 160 community tourism enterprises inside its trips with Planeterra and publishes Ripple Scores showing how much trip spending stays local.

Naramatisho Women's Centre & Maasai Cultural Stay — In June 2026, its tourism profits funded secondary school scholarships for three local girls and 100 goats and sheep for 20 Maasai women.

PACT/ ECPAT-USA— Its free hotel anti-trafficking training, in collaboration with the AHLA Foundation and Marriott International, passed 2.7 million completions in 2026.

UnTours Foundation — The Reset Tourism Fund has made 74 investments totaling $1.9 million in small tourism businesses in 25 countries, prioritizing underrepresented founders.

Congratulations to all five finalists!

https://travelunity.org/2026awards

10/02/2026

Meet the finalists for the 2026 Travel Unity Inclusion Champion Award:

Justin Barnette - Visit South Africa

Julia Cohen Ribeiro - Lunfarda Travel/ El Tambo Afro

Dr. Damien L. Duchamp - Hospitalented

Tami Fairweather - WITS / The Fairweather Experience

Josh Heinz - Visit Greater Palm Springs

Sherry L. Rupert - American Indigenous Tourism Association

Dr. Antony King Fung Wong - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - PolyU

Public voting for the Inclusion Champion Award opens next week.

Learn more:
https://travelunity.org/2026awards

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