Mike Robbins
Joined Atlas Obscura in 2026
Michael Robbins is a tourism planner/consultant with more than 45 years of experience across Canada and in destinations including the US, New Zealand and Australia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. He specializes in sustainable and community-based tourism, ecotourism master planning, and strategic planning for destinations and government tourism agencies, grounded in an environmental planning background.
He is the former Chair of CREST (The Center for Responsible Travel) and currently serves as Chair of the Georgian Bay Geopark, is a member of the IUCN TAPAS Group, the Trebek Council and a Founding Director with the Escarpment Corridor Alliance, and is a Fellow of both the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and The Explorers Club. Through MakeWay (formerly Tides Canada), he directs a donor-advised fund supporting cultural heritage and conservation initiatives across Canada, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous ecotourism in northern Canada.
