Senior Content & Marketing Strategist Expert Since 2012
Lis Larson is longtime member of the AdventureSmith family and an integral part of our marketing, communications and content. Her SEO experience and content management skills landed her at AdventureSmith nearly 15 years ago. Since that time, she’s reached all 7 continents and brings that depth of experience (and her unique way with words) to captivate and connect you to places and cultures around the world.
Lis’s path to adventure travel started while working as managing editor for a regional magazine. It was there that she began telling stories of the places and people that made it shine.
Today we’re proud to call her one of AdventureSmith’s longest-tenured employees. Since Lis started with our company in 2012, she’s been on dozens of expedition cruises, read thousands of our client testimonials and, thus, intimately knows what valuable stories this style of travel has to tell. Some highlights of her work here include:
Lis regularly works with writers on everything from showcasing deals that don’t sacrifice trip experience to telling the stories of people, places and notable ships. One of her recent story pitches involved working with an expedition guide and a writer for over a year to bring all the people and pieces together. She also oversees messaging for our award applications that include Conde Nast Traveler‘s Top Travel Specialist & Sunset Magazine‘s Travel Awards.
Lis maintains a sideline creative edge with her love for travel sketching, block printing and sending/making her own postcards. Her philanthropic passions center around animal rights and safety with volunteer stints focused on wild animal rescue.
Travel is of course a big part of her personal life too. Her wild wanderings have included hitchhiking in New Zealand, officiating a wedding in Tulum, driving down the entire Baja California Peninsula and taking Zapcat F1 racing skiffs around the southwest coast of St. Croix with her 4-year-old aboard. Connect with Lis on on LinkedIn and follow her travels and sketches at @lislarsontravel.
Travel is central to Lis’s work at AdventureSmith. Wherever she goes, there’s a resulting story, review, Instagram reel and/or detailed staff training. This sampling of stories brings Lis’s depth of experience to you:
This review of the 20-guest Hermes comes from our time aboard in the ship's first weeks of sailings. Read on to learn if this brand-new luxury catamaran is right for you. Plus, how it stacks up among other Galapagos catamarans and luxury yachts.
An AdventureSmith expert details her Dubrovnik to Split cruise aboard a 36-guest yacht. Learn all about the journey and tips for booking your cabin that can also apply to our other Croatia small ship cruises.
Learn about the food, cabins, crew and more from AdventureSmith experts who've been aboard these unique Indonesian sailing vessels.
AdventureSmith sails Indonesia's most remote reaches, along the eastern coast of Sulawesi. Learn our insights on this trip and the highlights of a Sulawesi cruise.
AdventureSmith’s Lis recounts her Antarctica air cruise. Learn what it's like to fly the Drake and travel in a single-share cabin.
AdventureSmith's Lis reviews her experience on the 7-day Sacred Valley & Lares Adventure to Machu Picchu. Read on for her expert review and photos.
It’s only fitting that when you visit the Sea of Cortez—the body of water that Jacques Cousteau dubbed the aquarium of the world—that you travel by water. Lis reviews her 8 days aboard the Safari Endeavour.
AdventureSmith's Lis reviews her 8-day Alaska cruise from Juneau to Ketchikan aboard the 76-guest Wilderness Discoverer.
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