Travel Expert To Address Captive Conference
Doug Lansky — an adventurer and award-winning travel writer for “National Geographic” and “Huffington Post” — will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Bermuda Captive Conference, promising to take international re/insurance executives around the world in 80 laughs.
The conference is being held at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel from June 5-8 and is expected to draw hundreds of participants from around the world.
Sponsors include leading financial service firms HSBC, the Bank of N.T. Butterfield, J.P. Morgan, KPMG and Marsh as well as re/insurer ACE and international law firms Appleby and Cox Hallett Wilkinson.
Whether he’s using lessons learned while traveling full time for 10 years in over 100 countries to help university students save money and create one-of-a-kind journeys, explaining to seasoned, budget-savvy travellers how to find those unique, enriching experiences or showing marketing professionals how international campaigns go astray, Mr. Lansky’s photo-driven presentations leave audiences laughing — and looking at the world in a new way.
After working the copying machine at “Late Night with David Letterman”, “Spy Magazine” and the “New Yorker” during college, Doug Lansky rejected life as a professional intern and hit the road.
After two and a half years working his way around the planet – picking bananas in Israel, snowmobile guiding in the Alps, selling carpets in Morocco, and hitching on yachts – a car accident in Thailand brought him home.
Six months later, Mr. Lansky was back on the road, but this time with a nationally syndicated travel column that grew to reach over 10 million readers in 40 major newspapers.
Mr. Lansky hosted an hour-long travel documentary for the Discovery Channel/Travel Channel, taught journalism at Colorado College, published several books, including, “Last Trout in Venice”, “Up the Amazon without a Paddle” and “Rough Guide to Traveling Around the World”, has contributed to “Esquire”, “Men’s Journal”, “National Geographic Adventure” and he served as the regular world-travel expert on National Public Radio’s flagship travel programme, “Savvy Traveler.”
He is the author of the Lonely Planet best-seller Signspotting, and “The Titanic Awards”, which celebrates “dubious achievements of travel.”
Mr. Lansky is working on two new books while he tours the lecture circuit and contributes to other publications. To date, he has been on the road for roughly ten years in over 100 countries.
The writer was born in New York, grew up in Minnesota, and attended Colorado College (with a few random classes from London University and Harvard), and says he “majored in a subject he can no longer recall. :
He currently makes his base camp in Stockholm, with his Swedish wife Signe, and their three children.
