Doug Lansky

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Presentations

Get Lost
Get Lost is a fast-paced visual performance on travel - like stand-up comedy, but with a great message. Informative, inspirational and funny. Lansky's lectures at colleges and universities across th US play to packed venues. Through words and images, each World Travel Show presentation brings the audience on an hour-long global odyssey, full of information, lessons and experiences acquired while backpacking across more than 100 countries. What he teaches is useful not just in traveling on semesters abroad or as an impendent traveler, but also in enriching everyday life -- no mater where you go or what you do.

Lost in Translation
Travel writer and keynote speaker Doug Lansky takes an entertaining and insightful look at what happens when national and international tourism marketing goes wrong and how to prevent it. In addition to the failed marketing images, he shares some of the world's worst tourism slogans, worst hotel names, and shows what happens when there's a disconnect between the brochure and the actual experience.

The Art of Miscommunication
There are many people who can tell you how to brand and market your product. Keynote speaker Doug Lansky will show you how not to do it. Based on his best-selling Signspotting book series of hilarious signs and failed marketing photos from around the world, Lansky is able to convert these universally funny images into a powerful takeaway message that illustrates not just the importance of brand protection, but how to do it effectively. 

Summary Profile

A traveler at heart, Doug Lansky has worked his way around the globe, visiting more than 100 countries in 10 years.

He has picked bananas in Israel and sold carpets in Morocco, and has captured his experiences and travel tales in books, on television and in a column followed by 10 million readers of 40 major newspapers. Lansky is the world travel expert on Public Radio's flagship program, Savvy Traveler, and has released his book First Time Around The World, a comprehensive (yet delightfully readable) guide to the ultimate journey.

Combining humour, stories and advice, Lansky's presentations are true performances. His audiences are enthralled and entertained as he takes them around the world on the ultimate travel journey.

Client Testimonials:

"Doug's presentation could almost be called a performance; it was informative and entertaining. He has hilarious slides and anecdotes pertaining to travel and world cultures. He took us all over the world and we laughed the whole way!"

Macalester College