Schedule
November 4-6, 2025 - Inuvik, NWT
We can’t wait to see you!
NWTT is working on a spectacular program for the 2025 AGM & Conference. Updates on speakers, experiences, training, and the general program will be posted here as they become available.
Check out our spectacular program from the 2024 NWT Tourism AGM & Conference below.
*2024 Schedule*
2025 Speakers
Robin Esrock
Keynote Speaker
Robin Esrock’s career as a global adventurer, award-winning travel writer, bestselling author, and international TV host began with an unexpected twist. After a bike accident left him with a broken kneecap and a $20,000 insurance payout, Robin set off on a solo year-long backpacking journey to 24 countries. Sharing weekly reports, photography, videos, and interviews, he helped pioneer modern travel journalism across digital platforms.
Before discovering travel writing, Robin explored careers in media and music. In London, he worked with the Sunday Times, BBC, Reuters, and FilmFour. After immigrating to Canada, he founded a record label and worked with global artists like Coldplay and Norah Jones.
Robin’s travel stories have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Sydney Morning Herald, Reader’s Digest, and more. He has featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC, and Forbes Travel, and contributed columns to The Globe and Mail, MSN, and Canadian Geographic.
Robin Esrock co-created and hosted Word Travels, a groundbreaking TV series filmed in 36 countries. The show aired in over 100 nations on National Geographic, OLN, Travel Channel, and Amazon Prime. He also created the award-winning food series Get Stuffed.
Robin has inspired audiences at Scotiabank, IBM, Deloitte, Tourism New Zealand, and more. His TEDx talk on travel’s transformative power has over one million views.
He is the bestselling author of The Great Canadian Bucket List, The Great Global Bucket List, and The Great Australian Bucket List. Robin has earned numerous awards, including a 2024 Lowell Thomas Gold Medal, and holds fellowships with the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and SATW.
Now having reported from over 120 countries on 7 continents, Robin Esrock continues to write, blog, share, talk about and film his ongoing adventures. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children.
Robin will share his perspective on the power of story, using real-world examples to highlight the impact of storytelling as a means of connecting with clients and consumers. Robin will share his personal story of breaking boundries given the unlikely odds of becoming an international explorer, and what it took to achieve this goal. He will also dive into into the value of thinking (and sometimes failing) big, and the crucial role of taking on projects with the right intention.
Chrissy Barbeau
Trainer
Chrissy Barbeau (she/her) is the woman behind Smiling Fox Marketing. Chrissy is continually on a mission to combine her love of travel with her mission to have a positive role in assisting small and northern tourism businesses through simple web design & booking platform integrations, online marketing, and virtual assistance. She is a member of the Long Lake 58 First Nation in Northern Ontario and grew up in a small village in Northwest Manitoba; nowadays she works remotely while travelling nearly full time in her tiny home on wheels. Chi Miigwech
The training session with Smiling Fox Marketing will include topics such as the need for a basic website, social & email marketing, booking platforms and channel managers, followed by an interactive hands-on component. Lastly, Chrissy will discuss basic ways to improve your online presence to get you where you want to be online! Q&A will be informal throughout and at the end of the training session. Participants will have an opportunity to sign up for consultations after the event with Chrissy at no-cost.
