Data

• 2020 BIPOC Travel Consensus (quantitative & qualitative data from over 5000 BIPOC travelers)
• Internal survey results from Explore Asheville employees

Document Resources

• BIPOC Travel Writers
• BIPOC Influencers, Communities, and Events

Organizations & Websites

• Blacks in travel and tourism
• National Society of Minorities in Hospitality (good organization to partner with for student recruitment)
• History of Black Travel
• 55+ Black, Indigenous & POC-Owned Outdoor Collectives to Support
• HBCUs with Hospitality and Tourism Programs
• Project Implicit (unconscious bias tests for EA team members)
• The ABC Travel Greenbook

• Share your business identity attributes through Google 
• Social Identity Wheel
• Yoruba - a local Black Owned business district

Potential Funding Opportunities

To assist with building workforce housing for local Asheville employees

• Workforce/Affordable Housing Resources
• What is workforce housing and how can you benefit

• Example from Dollywood

Contact Information

NOMADNESS Travel Tribe

Evita Robinson evita@nomadnesstv.com 

Tourism RESET 

Alana Dillette, PH.D. adillette@sdsu.edu 

Stefanie Benjamin, PH.D. sbenjam1@utk.edu