Nia Klatte

Regional Sustainability Coordinator, Khiri Reach

Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nia Klatte is the Regional Sustainability Coordinator at Khiri Travel and the Executive Director of Khiri Reach Foundation. A sustainable and responsible tourism specialist with a Master’s in Tourism & Social Anthropology from the University of Brighton, Nia combines her passion for sustainable development within the travel and hospitality industry. She’s been working in South East Asia since 2013, as Sustainability Manager in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, before taking on the role as Regional Sustainability Coordinator at Khiri Travel in 2019. Within a year she had helped Khiri become the very first DMC to be Travelife-certified in all its 7 destinations. Besides her engagement in various sustainability working groups across Southeast Asia, Nia is one of the founding members of IMPACT Vietnam, a network of responsible tour operators promoting sustainable tourism development.

About Khiri Travel 

Khiri Travel is a Destination Management Company, delivering creative and personalized itineraries with the highest standard of service to tour operators worldwide while being accountable for the triple-bottom line: People, Planet and Profit. Founded in 1993, Khiri now has offices and specialist teams in Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It is our purpose to make tourism a force for good and to contribute positively to the conservation of communities & destinations we travel to.

Khiri Reach is a non-profit organization that operates as a social platform where people and organizations can collaborate and create positive change across Asia. Reach was founded with the objective of helping to solve some of the pressing issues in the region by using sustainable tourism as a tool to enhance cultural understanding, circular industry, respect of nature, protecting the environment, and to bring about sustainable development in local communities.