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Become a Regenerative Travel Ambassador
Host the conversation in your region. Four times a year, gather your fellow members around the questions that matter, and help write the report that tells the world where regenerative travel is headed.
The Opportunity
Regenerative Travel is a network built on proximity as much as principle. The properties, Agencies of Change, and Champions closest to each other geographically often understand each other's context fastest. A Regional Ambassador makes that proximity count.
This is a volunteer leadership role. You'll host quarterly gatherings for members in your region, called Peer Grounds, and steward the insight from those conversations into the network's annual benchmark: the State of the Region and Regeneration Travel Report.
You won't be doing this instead of your work. You'll be doing it because you're already having these conversations, and giving them a home makes them count for more.
What You'll Do
Convene an online session for members in your region each quarter. RT provides the format, the prompts, and the platform. You bring the region.
Peer Grounds aren't webinars. They're working sessions where members trade what's working, what's breaking, and what's next in their markets.
At year's end, the four sessions become source material for your region's chapter in the State of the Region and Regeneration Travel Report, the network's flagship look at where regenerative hospitality stands and where it's going. You're credited as the regional author.
Ambassadors have a standing seat in shaping symposium themes, editorial coverage, and platform priorities for their region.
What You'll Gain
- Recognition as a regional leader across the RT network, symposium programming, and editorial coverage
- Direct authorship credit on a report read by the full membership, partners, and prospective properties
- First look at cross-regional data and trends before they're public
- A stronger peer network of the members you're already working alongside
- Standing input into how RT programs and communicates in your region
Time Commitment
Roughly one hour of prep and one hour of hosting per quarter, plus a few hours in Q4 to help shape your region's report chapter. RT handles logistics, templates, and follow-up.
This Role Is Volunteer
Ambassadors are not compensated. What you gain is visibility, network, and a hand in shaping the story of your region. If that trade makes sense to you, we want to hear from you.
Who We're Looking For
This is not an entry-level role. An Ambassador sets the intellectual bar for their region's conversation, and the annual report is only as credible as the person shaping it.
You can speak to what regeneration means in practice across disciplines: land and ecosystem stewardship, water and energy systems, community ownership and equity, cultural preservation, supply chain and sourcing integrity, labor practices. You understand how these disciplines interlock, and you can tell the difference between a property that has adopted regenerative language and one that has restructured its operations around it.
You understand how regenerative principles translate into the daily mechanics of running a property, an experience, or a destination-facing business: staffing and training, guest experience design, procurement, capital investment cycles, local partnership structures. Peer Grounds need someone who can push past aspiration and ask the operational question.
Not passing familiarity.
This role is not open to owners of hotels or Agencies of Change, so the conversation reflects the region, not any one property's interest. If you're an RT member applying from inside a member property or agency, this rules you out; the role calls for staff, consultants, researchers, journalists, or other practitioners without an ownership stake. If you're applying from outside RT membership, the same independence applies: no ownership position in a hospitality or travel business being covered by the region's Peer Grounds.
You can hold a room (or a call), draw out members who go quiet, and press past surface-level answers to get to what's actually happening.
You'll be shaping raw conversation into a report chapter that partners and prospective members will read as a credible signal of where your region stands.
- Prior experience in sustainability, regenerative design, ESG, or environmental/social systems work, inside or outside hospitality
- A track record of representing your property or organization in cross-regional or industry-wide forums
- Fluency in the specific regenerative pressures and opportunities of your region (e.g. water scarcity, land rights, overtourism, indigenous partnership models)
If you're not sure whether your background clears this bar, apply anyway and let us make that call. But come prepared to be tested on it: the application will ask you to speak to a regenerative operating challenge in your own work, in your own words.
Timeline
- Applications open now
- The ambassador search closes November 30, 2026
- Ambassador announcements begin in early December 2026
Peer Grounds run four times a year, entirely online, spaced roughly quarterly: November, February, May, and August. Each region's four sessions become the source material for that region's chapter in the annual report.
Sessions compile into the State of the Region and Regeneration Travel Report each September, with the report launching publicly every October. Year one launches at the Bangkok Symposium in October 2027; future years follow the same annual rhythm.
Apply to Become a Regional Ambassador
Tell us your region, your background (RT membership, if applicable), and how you'd frame a real regenerative operating challenge in your own work. We'll follow up within two weeks.
Introducing Regional Peer Grounds
Starting this year, your region gets a dedicated space to compare notes, four times annually, led by an independent regional voice.
What's New
Regenerative Travel is rolling out a Regional Ambassador Program: a network of independent volunteers, deeply connected to their region but without ownership stake in any property or agency, who each host Peer Grounds — quarterly regional conversations bringing together the members closest to your market and your challenges. Keeping the role independent means the conversation reflects the region, not any one property's interest.
Where global symposiums connect the whole network once or twice a year, Peer Grounds happen closer to home, more often, and go deeper on what's specific to your region.
Why We're Doing This
The regenerative travel movement doesn't look the same in East Africa as it does in Southeast Asia or the Andes. Regional context shapes everything: sourcing, labor, land, policy, climate pressure, guest expectations. Peer Grounds give that context a regular forum, run by someone who lives inside it.
The conversations don't disappear at the end of each call. They feed directly into the State of the Region and Regeneration Travel Report, published annually, giving every member a documented, data-backed view of where their region stands and where the network as a whole is moving.
What This Means for You
- A closer, more frequent peer forum than the annual symposium alone can offer
- A voice in the annual report that becomes RT's flagship reference point for partners, press, and prospective members
- A named point of contact in your region for questions, ideas, and connections between symposiums
- More say in regional programming, since your Ambassador carries your input into how RT shapes coverage and events in your part of the world
Timeline
The ambassador search closes November 30, 2026, and we will begin announcing ambassadors in early December 2026. Each region meets online four times a year, on a November–February–May–August rhythm, feeding into the State of the Region and Regeneration Travel Report, published every October.
How to Get Involved
Watch for your invitation once your region's Ambassador is confirmed.
Know a strong regenerative practitioner in your region, outside of ownership roles, who should lead the conversation? Tell us.
The role is open to staff, consultants, researchers, and other practitioners without an ownership stake in a hospitality or travel business.
Regions
All regions are currently open. The search closes November 30, 2026, with announcements beginning in early December 2026.
Nominate an Ambassador
Suggest a regenerative practitioner in your region — outside of ownership roles — who should lead the conversation.