Founding President and CEO of the International Alliance of Regenerative Tourism (IART), with four decades of hands-on leadership in hotel operations, hospitality, MICE, destination development, and tourism across the Philippines, Japan, Peru, and Indonesia.
Her experience includes working with Inkaterra in Peru, a Harvard and Cornell-studied hospitality model demonstrating how biodiversity, conservation, and cultural value can drive business growth and profitability.
She previously served as Global Sustainable Tourism Council Country Representative and Trainer, and as Green Destinations Southeast Asia Partner, East Asia Coordinator, and Coach, a distinctive combination of global standards, destination implementation, and capacity-building expertise in the Philippines.
After nearly two decades advancing sustainable tourism through the Society for Sustainable Tourism and Dev. Inc., she founded IART to operationalize regeneration across destinations, hotels, enterprises, communities, and education. Her work connects climate resilience, circularity, and cultural reverence with competitiveness, stronger local economies, profitability, and long-term business robustness.