Building Pathways for Human Rights in Travel and Tourism with Irstel Jansen

About this episode

Irstel Jansen discusses her work in human rights within the travel and tourism sector.

Send us Fan Mail Irstel Jansen, Founder of the Women in Travel Collective, joins Christine for this week’s soulful conversation as a guest in our Trailblazer Series, produced in collaboration with Strictly Jane Austen Tours. Irstel is a social entrepreneur and a consultant in human rights in the tourism sector in Sri Lanka and collaborates with international and non governmental organizations, the private sector and public sector institutions on human rights policies, including child protecti...

People in this episode

Host: Christine Winebrenner Irick

Guest: Irstel Jansen

Topics covered

• human rights
• travel
• tourism
• social entrepreneurship
• women empowerment

Keywords

• human rights
• tourism
• women in travel
• social entrepreneur
• Sri Lanka

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Women in Travel Collective, Strictly Jane Austen Tours, international and non governmental organizations, private sector, public sector institutions

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