Norie Quintos is a consultant for the travel industry on communications strategy, media relations, custom content, and messaging. She helps destinations and travel companies find and tell their stories through communications audits, seminars and training, coaching, and print and pixel projects. Clients have included Destination British Columbia, Destination Canada, KÜHL adventure clothing, Academic Travel Abroad, South Expeditions, and others.
An award-winning journalist, she is an Editor at Large for National Geographic Travel Media. She has spoken and presented at the conferences of the Adventure Travel Trade Association, Travel+Social Good, the Public Relations Society of America, Canada Media Marketplace, the Educational Travel Consortium, the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association, and the CREST Forum on Sustainable Tourism. She is on the board of directors of the Adventure Travel Conservation Fund, and the advisory boards of the Transformational Travel Council, Adventure Travel Media, and GivingWay.
She is the former executive editor of National Geographic Traveler and was an editor at U.S. News and World Report and Caribbean Travel and Life. She has traveled the world, and is based outside Washington, D.C. View her website at www.noriequintos.com.