Olivia Ruggles-Brise

Consultant, The Tourism Company, UK

Olivia Ruggles-Brise is a consultant with The Tourism Company, a specialist tourism management and marketing consultancy based in London. Her work involves developing sustainable tourism strategies for destinations in the UK and internationally, most recently for the Clwydian Range AONB in North Wales and the Diber/Kukes region of North East Albania. Until 2006 she was Policy and Communications Manager for the World Travel & Tourism Council where she managed the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards and undertook a range of policy research in countries such as Romania, Trinidad & Tobago, Greece and Namibia. In 2003 she obtained an MA in Tourism, Environment and Development from King's College, London where she is now a visiting lecturer.