Lucy Izon

Email:	lucy.izon[at]sympatico.ca
Website:	[CanadaCool.com CanadaCool.com]
LinkedIn:	[Profile Lucy Izon]
Twitter:	@CanadaCool

Lucy Izon is an award-winning speaker, travel journalist, a syndicated columnist, and a domainer. She is currently involved as a speaker and writer with Canada Cool, her own project that uses her passion for travelling and Internet media to document what makes Canada a unique and interesting place to live and travel. For thirty years she has been a columnist, writing on the backpacking style of traveling and featured in leading North American newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel.

She first became involved in domaining when she sold the .com version of her last name, izon.com, to a nanotech company in New Zealand. Since then she has taken a wider interest in the domain marketplace, including the expansion made possible via new gTLDs.

Travel Author & Expert

Ms. Izon wrote her own travel guide, Izon's Backpacker Journal & Canadian Traveller's Trip Planner (TVO), and has been contributing author to Thomas Cook's Touring Eastern Canada and contributor to Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul. She has served as both Canadian Chapter Chair and Vice President of the Society of American Travel Writers, and she is a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada. In 2000, Lucy worked with the Canadian government and its Millenium Bureau to create a national travel writing and photography competition for young Canadians as a way to celebrate the millenium and encourage the youth to explore their country.

Lucy Izon won the award for 'Best Travel Journalism' from the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership in both 2005 and 2009, and she was one of five women chosen by Celebrity Cruises to help design new spacious staterooms for the Celebrity Solstice ship, which launched in November, 2008.