Richard Edwards is the Director of Planeterra. In this role, he oversees the direction and development of our Foundation with the purpose of ensuring sustainable community development through travel. The company's aim is to create lasting memories and meaningful relationships between travelers and local communities by providing all generations of travelers with ways to connect and give back to our valuable projects around the world.
Edwards has over 20 years of experience in the ecotourism industry, integrated resource management and international community development.
Richard Edwards received his undergraduate degree from Linfield College and his Masters degree from Washington State University.
The next phase in my travel career after really working for business that I felt were making some kind of a contribution in the destinations that they were visiting was to, I wanted to be part of an organization that took it one more step and that is to develop some of those projects on the ground, ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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