Tim O’Donoghue

Tim O'Donoghue or Riverwind LLC and the Riverwind Foundation

Tim O’Donoghue

Tim O’Donoghue is exec­ut­ive dir­ect­or of the River­wind Found­a­tion and the prin­cip­al of River­wind LLC, offer­ing a range of train­ing and tech­nic­al assist­ance ser­vices for organ­isa­tions and des­tin­a­tions that wish to incor­por­ate sus­tain­ab­il­ity in their plan­ning and operations.

Tim also serves on the Respons­ible Tour­ism Institute’s Sci­entif­ic Advis­ory Board, and he ment­ors Uni­ver­sity of Wyom­ing stu­dents in sus­tain­able tour­ism development.

Tim’s pro­fes­sion­al not-for-profit and private-sec­tor career includes pro­ject and pro­gram man­age­ment stints in vari­ous oth­er indus­tries, includ­ing nuc­le­ar power, haz­ard­ous waste, and space sci­ence (includ­ing NAS­A’s space sta­tion, spacelab, and Voy­ager 2 programs).

Two tourism democratisation challenges to consider as we plan for recovery

October 6, 2020

Two tourism democratisation challenges to consider as we plan for recovery

Sus­tain­able tour­ism con­sult­ant Tim O’Donoghue leads the col­lab­or­at­ive efforts of Teton County, Wyom­ing, USA to become a sus­tain­able des­tin­a­tion. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr O’Donoghue iden­ti­fies two core chal­lenges to achiev­ing com­munity con­sensus around tour­ism devel­op­ment plan­ning and des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment. Most com­munit­ies that are travel des­tin­a­tions have seen their tour­ism eco­nom­ies grow organ­ic­ally and […]

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