Staff: Gabe Seder Title
Gabriel is a tourism marketing and destination development professional with more than 10 years of experience consulting for emerging and established destinations and tourism businesses around the world. He has supported city, regional, and national destination organizations to create and implement tourism strategies and master plans, develop and roll out national tourism brands, and implement international multi-channel marketing campaigns. He has worked in more than 15 countries and destinations across the United States.
He has supported international tourism development projects funded by USAID, the National Park Service, the World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank, and implemented tourism marketing campaigns for clients that include National Geographic, UNESCO, Smithsonian and the World Wildlife Fund.
In 2020, he joined Destinations International as Senior Director, Advocacy Policy and Program Development. In this role, he focuses on issues related to destination management, sustainability, and strategic planning; destination organization creation; public policy issues such as homelessness, affordable housing, economic development, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and ways to achieve destination organization alignment with the community it serves.
A native of coastal Maine, Gabriel lives in Washington DC. He has a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the George Washington University.
More About Gabe
Favorite Travel Destination: I lived in Bogota and fell in love with Colombia. Everywhere you go in the country is beautiful - mountains, deserts, jungle and beaches. The food is fantastic and always fresh. It is diverse and multicultural and the people are the warmest and most hospitable of anywhere Iâve ever visited.
Travel Bucket List: I love to visit anywhere with epic landscapes where you can combine outdoor adventures with cultural immersion in remote communities. On the list: Namibia, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan.
Fun Fact: In 2015 I had a chance to meet the Queen Mother of Bhutan and visit the Himalayan community where she was raised. We had tea and discussed opportunities for tourism to contribute to sustainable economic development in Bhutan.