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Scott Eddy

Hospitality’s No-Nonsense Voice | GAIN Advisor | Podcast: This Week in Hospitality | I Build ROI Through Storytelling | #4 Hospitality Influencer | #3 Cruise Influencer |🌏86 countries |⛴️123 cruises | DNA 🇯🇲 🇱🇧 🇺🇸

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About

My life was never meant to revolve around travel, marketing, or social media. In fact, my early path was set to follow in my father’s footsteps as a police officer. But life changed drastically when my father was killed in the line of duty in a plane crash, just three weeks before my high school graduation. That moment shifted everything. I found myself in investment banking for a decade, navigating a world of numbers and deals. When the firm sold, I decided to make a bold move: I bought a 2-week ticket to Thailand to visit a friend. That "2-week trip" turned into a life-changing adventure. I never used the return ticket. While living in Bangkok, I founded the first digital agency in Southeast Asia, which quickly became the largest in the region for five years. After selling the agency, I spent the next 17 years living in 6 countries, Thailand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, all while building my personal brand and working with some of the world's most renowned hospitality brands. Today, I travel full-time, and my mission is simple: Turning storytelling into ROI for the tourism and hospitality industry. From creating influencer campaigns to hosting Lifetim

Education

School of Hard Knocks
Reality, Entrepreneurship
1989