Mr. Kevin Wright - President of the World Religeous Travel Association
Kevin
J. Wrightis one of the world’s most recognized faith tourism authorities
and Founder/President of the World Religious Travel Association(WRTA), the leading organization for the $18 billion and 300 million
traveler religious tourism and hospitality market. In Fall 2008, WRTA will host the World
Religious Travel Expo 2008, the first-ever global tradeshow and educational
conference for the faith tourism industry. An award-winning author of four faith-based travel guidebooks, Wright recently
debuted his newest book The Christian Traveler Planner (www.christiantravelplanner.com), which serves as the most comprehensive guidebook ever written on faith vacations.
In his near fifteen-year career, he has traveled to almost 30 countries, visited more than 300 major places of pilgrimage,
embarked on faith-based cruise charters, escorted group tours, and writes for national publications. Wright has been interviewed
by CBS The Early Show, TIME Magazine, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, National Geographic, Forbes Traveler, London Times, and dozens of other media around the world. In 2004,
Wright launched the very successful and high profile Religious Travel Division at Globus, one of the world’s largest
escorted travel companies. Wright has spoken at major tourism events including The New York Times Travel Show, Jordan Travel
Mart, U.S.-Africa Tourism & Sports Seminar, The Bahamas National Tourism Conference, Caribbean Media Exchange, and the
Home Based Agency Show among others.