Andre Battah —
Educator. Strategist. Traveler.

Andre Battah · Founder & CEO

The Educator Who Traveled.
The Traveler Who Taught.

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Andre Battah Travel Educator · Travel Mentor · Travel Consultant Bangkok, Thailand · Canadian-British · Founder & CEO, Le Travelogist

My name is Andre Battah. I am a Canadian-British educator, strategist, and traveler — currently based in Bangkok after more than 25 years of living, working, and moving across the world.

I spent 20 years as a professional educator, specializing in Sports and Leisure Education. That background gave me something no amount of travel research alone could: an understanding of how to present complex information so that people feel empowered, not overwhelmed. How to structure knowledge so it builds rather than buries. How to meet someone where they are and bring them somewhere clearer.

I was also traveling. Extensively, persistently, and with genuine curiosity about everything I encountered — new cultures, unfamiliar rhythms, the way people behave differently depending on where they are in the world. I became fascinated not just by destinations, but by the systems that surround travel: how loyalty programs worked, how points accumulated, how some travelers consistently flew at the front of the plane while others couldn’t figure out which program was even worth joining.

I noticed something that genuinely bothered me. The information existed. But nobody was explaining it. Nobody was sitting down with a real traveler, looking at their specific situation, and walking them through it — clearly, honestly, and without an agenda. The forums were noisy. The YouTube channels were generic. The travel agents were booking, not teaching.

That intersection — twenty years of teaching, a decade of deep travel experience, and a clear gap in how travelers were actually being served — is where Le Travelogist began.

I have never been someone who travels to collect destinations. I travel because I am genuinely curious about how other people live — and what that curiosity does to my own thinking.

Twenty-five years of international living will do something to a person. I have lived and worked in places where I did not speak the primary language, where daily life operated by entirely different rules, and where the assumptions I arrived with stopped being useful almost immediately. That kind of experience changes how you see things in ways that are difficult to describe but very easy to feel.

I am a lifelong learner in the most literal sense. I read widely, I research obsessively, and I find genuine satisfaction in understanding how things work — whether that is the ecosystem of a loyalty program, the cultural logic of a place I have never visited, or the hospitality philosophy behind a hotel that does something quietly exceptional.

I am deeply interested in hospitality — not the industry concept of it, but the human one. The idea that how you make someone feel when they arrive somewhere matters enormously. That the difference between a good hotel and a genuinely memorable one is almost never the thread count — it is the quality of attention. That interest shapes how I work with clients, not just the recommendations I make.

I am also aware that I am the product of more than one culture — Canadian, British, and now shaped by years of life in Southeast Asia. That layered perspective is something I bring to every conversation about travel. The world looks different depending on where you have stood in it, and I have been fortunate enough to stand in quite a few places.