Delighted to be a guest on The Newsmakers – a TRT World’s flagship debate show about overtourism. A very balanced debate, focused on Barcelona.
TRT World is Turkey’s first international English-language news network, broadcasting worldwide and offering in-depth reporting focusing on global responsibility. It reaches over 260 million households around the world, and that number is growing.
The panel debate starts about 11.30 minutes in.
Panel:
NAME: Daniel Pardo Rivacoba
TITLE: Member of the Neighborhood Assembly for Tourism Degrowth (Assemblea de Barris pel Decreixement Turístic)
TWITTER: @drivacoba
NAME: Doug Lansky
TITLE: Author and Columnist
BIO: Doug Lansky has been living abroad and traveling for the last nearly 20 years in over 120 countries. He is the author of 10 books, including 2 for Lonely Planet and 3 for Rough Guides, had a weekly syndicated travel column in over 40 newspapers for five years, hosted a Travel Channel show, served as a correspondent for Public Radio’s Savvy Traveler show, served as travel editor for Scandinavian Airlines inflight magazine for three years and contributed to publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Reader’s Digest, Esquire, Men’s Journal, The Guardian, National Geographic Adventure, Huffington Post and Skift. On the speaking circuit, Doug has given acclaimed lectures at nearly 100 universities, spoken to a sold-out audience at National Geographic Headquarters, for the United Nations World’s Tourism Organization, as an after-dinner speaker at corporate events and at both public and industry travel/tourism conferences, at TEDx Stockholm, and set the attendance record for keynote lectures at the 2012 and 2013 ITB Berlin conferences.
TWITTER: @dlansky
Presenter: Andrea Sanke has been a recognized face and voice of international broadcasters, national news networks, and city radio stations for over twenty years. After working for US broadcasters NBC and National Public Radio in the early to mid-90s, Andrea was based in Bogota, Colombia, reporting for the country’s national morning TV news program, 7.30 Caracol. Andrea returned to Chicago in 1998, where she became the midday news voice of the ABC radio affiliate Newstalk 89. In 2000, she joined Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, to present news and the flagship business magazine. Five years later, Andrea relocated to London to anchor and report for CNN International’s news, business and features programs. She went on to launch France 24 as the channel’s senior presenter from Paris, and in 2015, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey, to launch TRT World, where she’s been a senior presenter ever since. Andrea holds degrees in Spanish and journalism- attending universities in the United States (University of Missouri-Columbia), Ecuador (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) and Colombia (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogota).
