# Extraordinary Travel Festival III Update IV– Ian Cumming - Travel Massive & Orest Zub - NomadMania

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/counting-countries-515125/extraordinary-travel-festival-iii-update-iv-ian-cumming-travel-massive-orest-zub-nomadmania
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/counting-countries-515125/extraordinary-travel-festival-iii-update-iv-ian-cumming-travel-massive-orest-zub-nomadmania.md
Podcast: [Counting Countries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/counting-countries-515125)
Published: 2026-05-15T12:38:00+00:00
Episode link: https://globalgaz.com/extraordinary-travel-festival-iii-update-iv/
Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/countingcountries/ETF_III_Update_IV.mp3?dest-id=389581
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/counting-countries-515125/episodes/extraordinary-travel-festival-iii-update-iv-ian-cumming-travel-massive-orest-zub-nomadmania
Duration seconds: 2935

## Resource

Join the Extraordinary Travel Festival in Bangkok, October 22-25, 2026. Use code BANGKOK to save on your ticket. One of the goals of the Extraordinary Travel Festival is to bring the leaders of the travel industry together. Why? We want to make your travels richer and more meaningful. Hearing from these thought leaders keeps you abreast of changes and benefits that can help you. We have founders and leaders like Matt Gray of Pangea, Stefan Krasowski of Every Passport Stamp, and Orest Zub of NomadMania and Ian Cumming of Travel Massive with the last two who are joining me on the podcast today. Orest Zub one of the leaders of NomadMania will be partnering once again with the Extraordinary Travel Festival. During this conversation we speak about updates to the NM regions and their expansion. NomadMania will be hosting the NM Travel Awards in person Sunday evening on October 25 at the ETF. It will be an amazing and fun evening. In addition, Orest will be hosting a panel with some NM power users and how to best benefit from this amazing resource. And there is still time to join the NM event in Brazil in June. Ian Cumming is the founder of Travel Massive, a network of 80,000 travel insiders and avid travelers. It is both an online an in-person network. Travel Massive will be partnering with ETF for its third time - that includes hosting the Travel Massive ETF happy hour meet up on Thursday, October 22. Ian will be hosting a great panel of travel tech experts including Matt Gray of Pangea, Keith Van of seats.aero, and Joel Olseon 193er and multi-year tech insider. Travel Massive will be hosting their own event, Travel Massive Asia Conference, in August in Vietnam. I attended last year and will be returning. Remember to join us in Bangkok at the ETF, please use code BANGKOK to…

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/counting-countries-515125/episodes/extraordinary-travel-festival-iii-update-iv-ian-cumming-travel-massive-orest-zub-nomadmania/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/counting-countries-515125/extraordinary-travel-festival-iii-update-iv-ian-cumming-travel-massive-orest-zub-nomadmania.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.