• Grab a seat and meet some amazing trailblazers in the Boston travel world with a special networking activity brought to you by HI Boston.

• Let's kick off WITSx Boston with some opening words by Beth Santos, Founder and CEO of Wanderful.

• With Kerry Sainato, SmarterTravel

• Panel discussion featuring some of Boston's newest travel tech startups featuring Emily Bernard of PlacePass, Jacqueline Hampton of Portico, and Anne-Fleur Andrle of Jack n' Ferdi, moderated by Brianne Miers of A Traveling Life.

• Enjoy lunch and connect with other amazing women in the travel space

• Let's talk about how people are traveling differently than ever before with an expert panel to discuss new innovations in the trip planning space. Featuring Ana Cvetkovic of BLOOM Digital Marketing, Retha Charette from The Roaming Nanny, and Sheila Drakeley of The Traveling Massholes. Moderated by Kaitlyn Kirkaldy of Wanderful.

• With Carla Tracy and Tracy Michaud, moderated by Kristin Fuhrmann-Simmons

New England is richly infused with culture, from picturesque seaside towns and mountain escapes to important sites of American history. Yet our region is also one of the least racially diverse regions in the country, with 84% of residents identifying as white. Our diversity reputation doesn’t help us, and we lose loads of prospective tourism because of it.

What is our responsibility, as the voices of the travel industry, to change how we receive, embrace, and market to tourists of color? What can we do as a region to improve our own practices in inclusion? This dynamic panel of seasoned travel influencers and industry talent will take a solutions-based approach to how we as a Boston-based community can bring more people -- from all backgrounds -- to what we think is the best region in the country.

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Featuring:

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• Lillie Marshall, Around The World "L" | Teaching Traveling

• SanTara Cassamajor, The Gorgeous Ingredient

• Carole Copeland Thomas, Greater Boston CVB Multicultural Committee

• Beth Santos, Founder and CEO, Wanderful