Dr Paul Rogers is one of Asia-Pacific’s most experienced tourism for development practitioners. Completed in 1997, his PhD centred on tourism, conservation and development issues in Nepal’s Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) National Park. Paul is a long-term expert consultant with the UN Tourism, the World Bank Group, ADB and numerous other international organisations, he has worked extensively in Nepal, Bhutan, Laos and the Greater Mekong Region, as well as Myanmar, North Korea, North-West Africa, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Paul is co-founder of Planet Happiness a tourism and wellbeing initiative inspired by several assignments in Bhutan. Planet Happiness focuses the attention of all tourism stakeholders on the well-being agenda; to use tourism as a vehicle for development that measurably and demonstrably strengthens destination sustainability and the quality of life of host communities.