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Tourism Hub Podcast with Despina KaratziasAuthor: Institute of Excellence
Do you live and love tourism? Want to build and grow your tourism business and career? Tourism Hub will provide inspiration and education that will empower and ignite your excellence. Each week, I, your host, Despina Karatzias, will share insights and journeys of entrepreneurs and leaders in tourism. Our main aim is to learn proven strategies in tourism, digital marketing and social media and everything in between together to inspire YOUR excellence. Subscribe now and ignite your tourism excellence today. If you want to help ignite the tourism industry with a message of excellence Subscribe on iTunes (http://apple.co/2cbmgVx) and stay connected with special experience maker interviews, insights and inspiration to grow your tourism business and career. Language: en Genres: Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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084 | Bridging the Gap: Tourism, Agriculture, and Community
Episode 84
Monday, 6 April, 2026
What happens when two industries that need each other still haven't quite figured out how to work together? In this episode, Despina Karatzias is on location at the 2025 ART Conference, sitting down with Yvette from Destination Riverina Murray for a conversation that covers the ground-level reality of agritourism, social impact, and the visitor economy in rural and regional Australia. Yvette brings nearly two decades of on-the-ground experience managing tourism across 22 local governments, and she doesn't hold back on where the gaps still are. The conversation moves across the social impact shift that defined this year's conference programme, the very real role agritourism plays in keeping rural communities financially viable during drought, and what a 10,000-kilometre road trip with a six-year-old taught Yvette about the visitor experience that no dashboard can show you. There is also a genuinely useful conversation about data — how banking data is helping smaller LGAs tell their visitor economy story for the first time, and where that intersects with AI's growing role in making sense of it all. If you work in regional tourism, destination management, or agritourism, or you're an operator wondering how you fit into the bigger picture, this episode will give you something to take back to your desk. Full show notes: https://www.instituteofexcellence.com/podcast/084/ Subscribe: https://www.instituteofexcellence.com/podcast/ Spotify: https://bit.ly/4nN1Faa Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/47zOkM4 Despina Karatzias: https://www.despinakaratzias.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/despinakaratzias/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/despinakaratzias/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@desikaratzias Institute of Excellence: https://www.instituteofexcellence.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExcellenceHQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tourismhubpodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instituteofexcellence/
