12-14 June 2023
Arival | Activate Bangkok 2023
Tap into Asia’s travel trends in one of the most dynamic cities in the world and join us for networking, peer-to-peer learning, and on-trend sessions where you drive the conversation.
Lauren comes from a background of entrepreneurial business development in the content writing, travel, technology, food/beverage, and hospitality industries. She is a partner and General Manager of Arigato Japan Travel, A culinary tourism company in Japan. From 2014-2016, Lauren was the content and community director for Odigo Japan, a travel planning/ itinerary building and sharing website and iOS application. She previously launched her own creative agency “True Taste Tokyo – Stories from Japan.” The agency was focused on social media, and content marketing for small creative travel and other businesses based in Japan. Lauren is a Pennsylvania native but has lived in Japan for over 20 years. She is an avid traveler, reader, writer, and creator of projects, her Arigato Japan partners nicknamed her the Arigato Japan CoMT “chief of many things”
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