Our Conferences
We at Zephyr Adventures, in addition to running adventure tours, organize conferences. We started this in 2008 when we wanted to tell wine bloggers about our great active wine vacations. Seeing there was no good way to contact them en masse, we came up with the idea of a Wine Bloggers Conference. A few years later and we now organize or co-organize six different conferences in the wine, food, beer, and fitness industries.
Here's why we think this mix is good for our tour participants and good for our conference attendees. Our tour participants benefit because we are now so well connected in the wine, food, beer, and fitness worlds. We have friends in the locations we visit, know whom to contact for inside information, and have a better understanding of what makes a great tour that emphasizes food, wine, and beer.
Our conference attendees benefit because we have been organizing tours for 15 years and this experience allows us to create great conferences. We consistently hear that our conferences are super well organized, which we sort of laugh at because if you are going to be a conference organizer, you had better be organized!
Beer Bloggers Conference
The 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference will take place July 13-15 in Indianapolis, Indiana with a pre-conference excursion to Chicago, Illinois. The world of beer bloggers is growing at an exponential rate, even since the first Beer Bloggers Conference in Boulder two years ago. Beer bloggers are proud of what they write about and the conference is always as entertaining as it is informative.
European Beer Bloggers Conference
The European Beer Bloggers Conference is in only its second year and represents the still-young beer blogging community in Europe. European beer bloggers are still forming as a community and this provides excellent opportunities for large sponsors to be involved from the ground floor in creative ways. The 2011 European Beer Bloggers Conference was extremely successful and was our highest rated conference by participants.
Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference
The Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference includes a variety of bloggers from those who write about health, wellness, weight loss or weight management, running, yoga, and more. Attending bloggers are generally on a mission - to provide their readers with tools and information that will help them improve their life. The conference is held at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the University of Colorado Medical School and all sponsors must be science-based.
International Food Blogger Conference
Wine Bloggers Conference
Wine Tourism Conference
The inaugural Wine Tourism Conference was held November 16-17 at the newly revived Napa Marriott hot on the heels of yet another inaugural Napa event, the Napa Valley Film Festival. This is the first conference focused on increasing and enhancing tourism to wine regions around the globe by discussing industry trends and issues as well as sharing best practices. While Napa is obviously world-renowned for its wine country, 35% of the conference attendees from 2011 were from outside of California.
