Megan Epler Wood has long been a believer in the power of creating a new, more sustainable world through travel. Her career has been dedicated to proving just how powerful the travel economy can be for good. With Planeterra, Megan has seen the potential of working with travelers, and and travel companies, to galvanize a real ethic and understanding for supporting long-term solutions in travel destinations worldwide.
Megan started on this path in 1990 when she founded The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), the oldest and largest non-profit organization in the world dedicated to making ecotourism a tool for sustainable tourism development worldwide. Megan established her own consulting firm EplerWood International in 2003, which allows her to engage in profound ways with local people and sustainable tourism development in some of the poorest countries in the world, ranging from Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and India to Honduras and Brazil. Megan also currently lectures at Harvard University Extension on environmental management of international tourism development via a global, televised classroom.
