{"id":1,"name":"Michael Kovnick","url":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/","description":"Michael Kovnick is the Co-founder & CEO of Culture Discovery Vacations, the small-group cultural travel company he's run as a direct operator since 2006. An Italian-American who's spent 40+ years with one foot in The USA and the other in Italy, he built CDV around a simple, stubborn idea: keep the majority of every travel dollar in the local community, and treat guests like family instead of customers. He's a CTIE-certified travel professional, published in 2025 on the anti-extractive tourism model CDV is built on.  He still writes here about the gap between how Americans and Italians see the world... and which side got it right.","link":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/author\/michael\/","slug":"michael","meta":{"jetpack_donation_warning_dismissed":false},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}