The Long Run’s Virtual Impact Show 2026 Returns
Cape Town, South Africa, March 15, 2026 / TRAVELINDEX / The Long Run will be hosting its third Virtual Impact Show on 25 March 2026, bringing together tourism leaders, sustainability experts and impact-driven tourism businesses from around the world to explore how to better accelerate credible impact across its 4C framework, namely Conservation, Community, Culture and Commerce.
This fully virtual event is free to attend and will offer a rare opportunity for non-members to gain invaluable insights and learnings from properties and experts deep “in the trenches of sustainable tourism”. They will be sharing real-life, unfiltered examples of what works best on the ground, including the operational challenges and solutions, to help and inspire other like-minded hotels, lodges, agents and DMCs to convert their well-intentioned sustainability ambitions and aspirations into meaningful, measurable results.
This year, there will be two live sessions, running from 09:00–12:00 CET and 17:00–20:00 CET, carefully timed to be more inclusive and flexible, whilst also accommodating global audiences across multiple time zones. All contributors will present live, with all sessions recorded and later made available to registered participants.
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Speakers during the day will include carefully vetted, highly respected member properties as well as tour operators, agents and sustainability specialists who are setting the benchmark for impact in their respective regions.
The line-up so far includes:
Juliet Kinsman – Sustainable Luxury Expert, Journalist, Founder of BOUTECO
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Zschiegner – Executive Director, The Long Run
Prof. Dr. Willy Legrand – International University of Applied Sciences – Bonn. A recognised expert in sustainable hospitality and received the prestigious 2022 Raphael Kavanaugh Champion of Education award from ICHRIE.
Dr. Molly Clavey – Client Nature Impact Lead, NatureMetrics. Winner of the Young Science Communicator award and part of the largest DNA-monitoring company in the world.
Giles Davies, Founder and Chairman – Conservation Capital
Delphine Malleret King – Independent Advisor
Laura Robinson – Operations and Sustainability Manager, Shinta Mani Wild, a radical new concept for a luxury camp experience in Cambodia, which came 2nd in Tatler’s Best Hotels 2024.
Olivier Marchesin – Founder, Lost Road Travel
Jo Hendry-Prior – Founder of Alchemist Travel. Recently named a 2026 Condé Nast Traveller Top Travel Specialist.
Barry Yee – Marine biologist and coral gardener at The Datai Langkawi. The first and only hotel in the world certified under the EarthCheck ECO (Silver) for terrestrial tourism in 2019.
Billie Dumaliang – Co-founder, Masungi Georeserve. TIME magazine’s 2024 Next Generation leader.
Lippa Wood Co-Founder, House In The Wild (Collection in the Wild)
Joy Juma – Programme Manager, Zeitz Foundation
Busisiwe Chauke – General Manager of Thornybush Community. Thornybush Game Lodge won Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards (2024 & 2025), falling into the category of the top 10 Safari Lodges in Africa and included in the Top 500 World’s Best Hotels.
Agustín Roselló – Director of Projects, Cerro Guido Foundation
Lars Mathiasen – Founder of We Travel
Chiara Mascarucci – Founder – Blind Experiences
Simon Bellingham – Founder – Bellingham Safari’s
Cecilia Mueni – Assistant Footprint Director, Sasaab (The Safari Collection)
Galen McCleary – Pu’u O Hōkū Ranch
Ana Figueroa – Founder of Adentrando, Argentina’s first woman-owned adventure travel company.
Silvia Rico – Founder – ENIGMA Peru
Isabel Malaret – Triple Impact Coordinator – Glove Travel
The Virtual Impact Show 2026 is designed as an authentic, engaging showcase of The Long Run’s global member community, with stories spanning destinations from the Philippines to Hawaii and many places in between, across Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.
The format will include:
- 12‑minute stories from the frontlines of nature-based, sustainable tourism, offering short, sharp narratives grounded in lived experience.
- Panel discussions that challenge the status quo and dig deeper into what “good” really looks like in tourism today.
- 30‑minute expert sessions that provide leading-edge perspectives across the 4Cs to deepen understanding and spark new ideas.
The Virtual Impact Show is for anyone working at the intersection of tourism, nature and people, including hotel and lodge owners, tour operators, tourism professionals, conservation and community leaders, investors, NGOs, media and sustainability practitioners. An invaluable opportunity to gain a truly international perspective on how tourism can better protect ecosystems, empower communities, celebrate culture and remain commercially viable in a rapidly changing world.
About The Long Run
Founded in 2009, The Long Run is a global community of pioneers leading the sustainable tourism movement. Collectively, its members protect and regenerate over 23 million acres of biodiverse landscapes and marine areas, improve the lives of more than 350,000 people through education and employment, invest millions each year in conservation and cultural projects, and support over 100 unique cultures worldwide. Members range from eco-lodges and nature-based tourism businesses to conservation organisations, travel agent and destination management companies, all united by their commitment to positive impact. At the heart of The Long Run is its holistic 4Cs framework: Conservation, Community, Culture, and Commerce. This model empowers members to balance environmental stewardship with socio-economic responsibilities, fostering long-term prosperity for both people and planet. This unique network is unlike any other, providing a platform for shared learning and transformative change in the tourism and conservation sectors.