Dr. Rachel Dodds is a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Rachel is known globally for her work to help make tourism more sustainable and works both in academia and industry. She is also the Director of Sustaining Tourism, a boutique consultancy where she has provided advice to governments, industry and the non-profit sector as well as the founder of Klevr Places – a start up helping destinations with data based decision making.  

Rachel is passionate about making change and working with all stakeholders. She has widely published on the topics of sustainable tourism, overtourism, destination planning and policy, islands and consumer motivations as well as how to travel more responsibly with children. Having lived and worked on four continents and travelled to over 80 countries, Rachel feels privileged to have witnessed both the positive and negative impacts of travel.