2019 Topics

Looking to attract visitors to your destination?
How to Use Humor to Attract Visitors provides destination management executives with the insight and courage to thoughtfully interject humor into their marketing campaigns, making their destination stand out from the crowd. 

Everyone is talking about video, but how do we use it? Creating Meaningful Video Campaigns gives leaders proven tools to capture and create videos to tell their organization’s unique value proposition. 

Preparing Your Place for the Camera provides practical solutions for preparing key attractions, hotel guest rooms and public areas, and cruise lines' suite of amenities and staterooms for the camera, while maintaining a realistic viewpoint and without breaking a budget. 

Videos + Social Media, Feeding The Beast! establishes a thorough platform to help grow one’s online, social community and create an on-going engagement campaign that delivers results. 

Not getting the media coverage you deserve? How To Get Media Attention provides an overview of the media, details about what journalists look for and what they consider news, and what executives and marketing leaders can do to gain valuable exposure through news outlets, both online and traditional.

Speaking Engagements
​Erik Hastings

Erik The Travel Guy is a dynamic public speaker who understands how to connect with individuals in both large and small gatherings. Enthusiastic, funny, and memorable, Erik is passionate about experiential travel and content creation that harnesses a variety of mediums and is the perfect speaker for your next event. 

Inspirational, educational and entertaining presentations will meet your audiences needs.

As the host of "Beyond Your Backyard", a nationally syndicated television series for PBS stations, Erik brings 25 years of media creation to his public appearances.  His inspiring “Make It or Die Trying” story of moving to New York City with nothing more than a two month sublet apartment encourages audiences to take risks and add an element of disruption to their own lives and careers.

Erik has created radio programming for more than two decades, working with such notable personalities as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Scott Shannon and countless others. He’s produced, both in front of and behind the camera, thousands of hours of video programming for television and other digital platforms.

The founder of Erik Hastings LLC, a media creation company with an impressive client list including World Travel Holdings, Hertz, The Greenbrier, Iberostar and countless destination marketing organizations, Erik serves as CEO and face of “Erik The travel Guy” A digital distribution company that utilizes video to inspire consumers to travel.  

Recent Speaking Engagements
Panelist, CruiseOne - Cruises Inc National Conference
Speaker, Ocean County, NJ Tourism Meeting 
Speaker, Roebling Museum Annual Meeting
Keynote Speaker, Louisiana State Tourism Summit
Speaker, South Jersey Tourism Corporation Annual Meeting
Keynote Speaker, Nevada Governors Conference On Tourism
Keynote Speaker, Valley Forge, PA Annual Meeting
Panelist, Norfolk, VA Annual Marketing Meeting
Keynote Speaker, Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association
Keynote Speaker, Empire State Bed & Breakfast Association Annual Meeting
Panelist, Travel Industry Association of America, Educational Seminar, Minneapolis, MN
Panelist, New York Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Speaker, eTourism Summit, Las Vegas, NV

For booking availability and/or more information, contact:

Kevin Allen
Email
646-350-0037