Stewart Moore

Stewart Moore is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of EarthCheck and the Executive Director of the APEC International Centre for Sustainable Tourism. EarthCheck is a global business advisory group which specializes in destination management and sustainable tourism. EarthCheck is based in Brisbane and operates in over 70 countries across 32 industry sectors in six languages.

Stewart is a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and the Australian Tourism Research Institute and has over 30 years of experience in tourism operations and consulting to both the private and public sector in the Asia Pacific region.

He served on the Tourism Forecasting Council of Australia for ten years and
was Chairman of the Pacific Asia Travel Association in Queensland for eight years.

He is on the Advisory Board for the Griffith University Institute for Tourism, is Deputy Chairman of the PATA Foundation in Thailand and Chairman of the National Centre for Studies in Travel and Tourism.

Stewart has a Masters of Regional Science specialising in tourism planning and sustainable development, a Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning (Honours) and has completed post graduate studies in Finance and Investment from the Financial and Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA); Conservation and Heritage from the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, U.K.

He has co-authored a wide range of books and publications in the areas of destination management, risk and crisis management, strategic and regional planning and product development.