About the Founder
"I help hotels, resorts, and travel operators reduce risk and strengthen guest and traveller safety — all without the cost or complexity of a full-time in-house safety function." — Andrew Howells, Founder
Destination Risk Advisors was founded by Andrew Howells, an independent safety consultant with 11 years of experience with Flight Centre Travel Group, including six years specialising in operational risk, safety and incident management across Asia. His experience includes assessing and managing risk across hotels, resorts, DMCs, tour operators and other travel suppliers.
Andrew spent 11 years with Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), one of the world's largest travel companies, including six years as Regional Risk Officer for Asia & Australia. In that role, he wasn't reviewing hotel safety from a distance — he was directly responsible for it, across a portfolio that included Cross Hotels & Resorts, Discova DMC, and FCTG's broader supply chain in the region.
His work included:
This is the experience base most safety consultants simply don't have. Certification bodies audit against a standard. Global risk firms manage programs from head office. Andrew has sat inside the operation, managed the phone call at 2am, and written the policy that prevented the next one.
Most hotels, guesthouses, DMCs and tour operators across Southeast Asia — particularly independent and boutique operators — have no realistic access to enterprise-grade risk consulting. The large international providers are priced and structured for global chains and Fortune 500 travel programs. What's missing is a consultancy that understands the operational reality of an independent guesthouse or a mid-sized regional DMC, and can build something they'll actually use.
Destination Risk Advisors was built to close that gap: practical, right-sized safety and crisis management systems, delivered by someone who has done the job, not just audited it.
Just as importantly, it closes the gap between "do nothing" and "hire a full-time safety manager." Most independent and mid-sized operators genuinely can't justify a full-time in-house safety hire — but they can bring in that same level of expertise as a scoped project, or as an ongoing advisory retainer, only when and as much as they need it.
Destination Risk Advisors works with hotels, resorts, guesthouses, DMCs, tour operators and educational travel providers across Southeast Asia and the broader Asia region.
