Vincie Ho is the Founder and Executive Director of RISE Travel Institute, an award-winning nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education.

RISE is also a Going Places Founding Member.

Born and raised in Hong Kong and now based in the United States, Vincie is a disruptor, nonprofit leader, seasoned educator, and woman immigrant of color with a hearing disability whose perspective is not commonly found in travel leadership spaces.

This conversation was so big and powerful that we broke it into two parts.

Part 2 comes out next week.

Listen to the Episode

What you’ll hear:

  • Do we have the capacity to care today?
  • Why is justice not part of the conversation in travel spaces
  • Colonial capitalism: the system at the root of injustice
  • How Yulia decides whether to go or not to go on a trip
  • The changes in Hong Kong over one decade
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"The kind of education we provide is a critical thinking tool to help travelers think more deeply about how our world has been shaped and how mass tourism has been largely extractive and colonial." – Vincie Ho
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Decolonizing Travel

A free RISE Travel Institute e-book with profound questions.

RISE Travel Institute has published the Decolonial Guide to Travel as a free e-book.

Inside, RISE asks critical questions that bring the impact of colonization into the present through the concept of neo-colonialism:

  • Did you know that 17 places worldwide remain under colonial rule–destinations like the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos?
  • Let's think about tourism leakage: for every $100 spent in a developing country, only $5 of it stays there
  • How do wellness retreats, conservation movements, and digital nomadism perpetuate colonial systems?

Download the free e-book here.

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When tourists go to travel destinations in the global South, they say, things are so cheap, you should come here, it's so nice. Well, things are cheap for you. And there’s a reason for that: it’s global economic inequity. – Vincie Ho

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