October 24, 2026
Bermuda Youth Travel & Creator Summit
To inspire Bermuda's next generation through travel, tourism, aviation, technology, entrepreneurship and content creation.
Explore the Summit
Our Story
Coming Home.
Why I Created the Bermuda Travel Experience.
Maurice Foley
Founder
“After spending more than two decades building a career in travel around the world, I realized the greatest opportunity was waiting where my journey began—home.”
Section One
My Journey
I grew up in St. David's, Bermuda — a place where the water is never far away and where community is something you feel long before anyone explains it to you. That corner of the island taught me who I was, and it quietly planted the curiosity that would define the rest of my life.
Travel found me early. The first time I left the island, I understood that the world was bigger than I imagined and that the way people move through it can change everything about how they see themselves. That discovery turned into a career spanning more than 25 years across tourism, hospitality, real estate and live events.
Along the way I founded the Black Travel Expo — a platform built to make travel feel possible for people who rarely saw themselves in the brochures. Through it, I met thousands of travelers, creators and tourism professionals, and I learned from destinations around the world about what it really takes to build a visitor economy that lasts.
The more places I helped others discover, the clearer one thing became: Bermuda deserved a platform of its own. Not a borrowed model. Not an imported template. Something built here, by Bermudians, for Bermuda — and generous enough to welcome the world.
“Travel has taken me around the world, but it also taught me the value of coming home.”
Section Two
Why Bermuda?
The world knows Bermuda for pink sand, turquoise water and a coastline that photographs like a painting. Those things are real — and they are not our greatest strength.
Our greatest strength is our people. It is the taxi driver who becomes a tour guide, the chef who cooks like you're family, the entrepreneur building something new out of a small shop, the young person with a camera and an instinct for story. Bermuda's advantage has never been the view. It has always been the welcome.
- Community
- Culture
- Hospitality
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Creativity
- Opportunity
25+
Years in Travel
Thousands
Travelers Connected
Global
Industry Partnerships
One
Vision for Bermuda
Section Three
Why Two Events?
One week. Two gatherings. The first opens a door for our young people. The second opens the island to the world.
October 31, 2026
Bermuda Travel Experience
To bring together visitors, travel professionals, creators, entrepreneurs, tourism leaders and Bermudians to celebrate our island while creating new opportunities.
Explore the ExperienceOur Mission
To inspire travel, create opportunity, celebrate Bermuda, and build meaningful connections between our island and the world.
Inspire
Show Bermudians — especially young Bermudians — what a life in travel can look like.
Connect
Bring residents, visitors, creators and industry leaders into the same room.
Celebrate
Honour our island, our people, our culture and our hospitality.
Grow
Create real economic opportunity for local businesses and entrepreneurs.
Our Vision
Looking Beyond One Event.
October 2026 is a beginning, not a destination. What we are building is an annual platform that keeps working long after the last session ends — for students choosing a career, for a small business finding its next customer, for a creator finding an audience, for an island telling its own story on its own terms.
Year over year, the ambition is simple: more opportunity created here, and more of the world arriving to experience Bermuda the way Bermudians know it.
- Growing into Bermuda's premier annual travel event
- Supporting local entrepreneurs and small businesses
- Expanding youth education in travel and tourism
- Building international tourism partnerships
- Creating lasting economic opportunities
- Positioning Bermuda as a leader in travel innovation
Built for Bermuda.Open to the World.
Built for Bermuda means the benefit stays here. Local businesses on the floor. Local voices on the stage. Local students in the room. Decisions made with our island's long-term interest first.
Open to the World means we do not build walls around it. Visitors, creators and industry partners from anywhere are welcome — because hospitality is what we do best, and because Bermuda grows when the world sees us clearly.
Section Seven
The Journey
Scroll the timeline →
- The Spark
Black Travel Expo Founded
A platform built to make travel feel possible for everyone.
- The Build
Years Building Community
Event after event, city after city, a community took shape.
- The Reach
Thousands Inspired Through Travel
Travelers, creators and professionals connected across the industry.
- The Return
Returning Home to Bermuda
The realization that the greatest opportunity was home all along.
- Oct 24, 2026
Bermuda Youth Travel & Creator Summit
Bermuda's next generation steps into the industry.
- Oct 31, 2026
Bermuda Travel Experience
The island welcomes the world for its signature travel gathering.
- Next
The Future Begins
An annual movement rooted in Bermuda, open to the world.
Join the First Chapter
This is Just the Beginning.
The Bermuda Travel Experience is more than an event. It is an invitation to become part of a community that believes travel can inspire ideas, strengthen cultures, create opportunities, and change lives.