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In Seattle, USA
1631 16th Avenue #220
Seattle, Washington 98122
tel: 1 206 984 7185
fax: 1 518 684 0471
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languages: English, French
Founded by travelers to promote meaningful travel
Leave Home Productions is a small travel consulting and production company organized as a partnership and based primarily in Seattle, Washington, USA. The founders of Leave Home created the company to seek meaningful work, to make use of their experience and interest in travel and the tourism industry, and to use their skills in video production, design, Web development, and client service.
Our approach
Our approach is informed by a commitment to responsible tourism and meaningful cultural exchange, and our own independent travel, group travel, and international living experiences. We strive to share our knowledge and learn from our clients, to provide service, and to develop mutually beneficial relationships.
We believe that interest in sustainable tourism and new communications technologies offer possibilities for wider distribution of the benefits of tourism and greater involvement of stake-holders from the host communities. There are also new opportunities to provide value to tourists while reducing the centrality of price considerations and to redefine roles in tourism distribution.
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Our experience and resources
We have experience in travel sales and marketing; travel agency; video production and direction; Web and multimedia design and programming; tourist hospitality; and sustainable community-building. The founders have also both owned other small businesses. Leave Home maintains contacts with talented designers, software engineers, writers, translators, tour guides, musicians, sound engineers, marketing consultants, and other professionals.
Andrew Villone has traveled extensively in Russia and Central-Eastern Europe, and has recently developed and led tours in Slovenia and the Balkan states. He is now marketing them under the name Roads Less Traveled. He is also trained as a travel agent. His academic background includes a degree in video communications with honors for directing, producing and editing. Andrew has worked in direction and production for short film and television (for ESPN and ABC Sports), and has written for arts- and film-related websites. Currently, he volunteers as a hospitality concierge at a Seattle youth hostel. Andrew lives in Seattle, USA.
Bryan Wilson is currently working toward certification in Ecotourism Planning & Management through Humboldt State University's Institute for Ecological Tourism. The current focus of his academic work is tourism to the Makah Indian nation on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. His travels have taken him across the USA by bike and to Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has lived, worked, and studied in France, Ireland, Denmark, and Japan. A special focus of his travels has been to educate himself about ecologcal practices and intentional community. Bryan is a board member and participant in Neighbornets, and several other organizations working in sustainable community-building, and is a member of the International Ecotourism Club (www.eco-club.com). He has developed online and interactive materials since 1995, and has owned a freelance Web programming and design business since 1998. Bryan's academic background includes French studies (he speaks French) and comparative social history. Bryan recently completed an intensive training program in permaculture design at the Bullock Brother's Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island, WA. He lives at Bob the House, a residential intentional community in Seattle, USA.
