Franklin Carpenter
Franklin Carpenter is a tourism professional from DuocUC of the Catholic University of Chile and a holds a master in Digital Marketing with a career of more than 20 years in the tourism and education sector, serving as a leader of strategic projects and educational organizations.
For almost a decade, he led the prestigious School of Hospitality, Tourism and Gastronomy of INACAP in Chile, a pioneering institution in Chile in tourism and hospitality training, and converted into the largest in the country, whose community exceeds 11,000 students, 400 academics and 22 career managers.
For the last 11 years, he has worked as a tourism strategy consultant, participating in more than 80 projects, carrying out diagnostic work, planning, strategic design, workshops and training. Likewise, he has continued to be linked to the world of education, advising different schools and tourism education initiatives in Chile, accompanying strategic planning and curricular design processes.
In addition, for two consecutive periods, Franklin was a member of the Board of Directors of the Chilean Federation of Tourism Companies, FEDETUR and was a founding member and first President of the Association of Tourism Professionals of Chile, APROTUR.
Today he maintains a firm commitment to innovation and sustainability, contributing to the development of the sector through creative solutions that promote the sustainable, digital and competitive development of tourism. Currently, from Barcelona, he leads the tourism area of the consulting firm Horwath HTL Spain and periodically contributes content focused on artificial intelligence applied to the tourism sector in its digital magazine The Generative Traveler on the LinkedIn platform.