Evan Tzeng integrates community, hospitality, and sustainability together to build businesses, design places, and produce experiences that challenge the status quo and celebrate humanity.
Evan is the Founder of StayAltered, the Director of Sustainability for Beyond Green Travel and Preferred Travel Group, a Steering Committee Member for Coalition of Festivals, and an Advisor to Asian Psychedelic Collective.
StayAltered is a worldwide community of hosts and guests who maximize the positive impact of hospitality.
Our booking, relationships, and rewards platform is the engine that powers The StayAltered Community. Every booking on StayAltered earns up to 50% in rewards to support independent hosts, share with global guests, and sponsor local neighbors.
When we help our community support, share, and sponsor each other, our community helps alter how the world works, plays, travels, and stays together – for good.
We believe in the power of sustainable tourism to make the world better.
At Beyond Green Travel, we work with destinations, hospitality companies, tour operators and non-profit groups to build their brands, craft compelling stories, and make travel a force for good.
For over 20 years, we have been on the cutting edge of travel innovation and leadership, helping to spearhead the global sustainable tourism movement that supports conservation, cultural preservation, and economic development through business success.
Beyond Green Travel was acquired in 2020 by Preferred Travel Group (the parent company of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Historic Hotels of America | Historic Hotels Worldwide, and Beyond Green, and now sells its services through PTG Consulting.
Since 2018, Evan has served as an events expert, creative consultant, and strategic advisor who guides visionary leaders and teams through the ideation-to-execution process of developing more meaningful experiences, impactful businesses, and destination-worthy places.
Select projects include:
Amaro Montenegro
Beyond Green
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
Outside Lands Festival
Mohegan Sun
The New York Times Food Festival
Raduno
Red Light Management
Time Magazine
Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts
Woodstock 50
Zebras Unite
Select agencies include:
Empire Entertainment
ENVEEKAY
Raduno
RCLCO
PKF International
Superfly
Select production work includes:
AEG Presents
CID Entertainment
Wanderlust Festivals
In 2016, Evan joined DWP to diversify the company’s intellectual properties beyond its core offering of single-genre festivals and into boutique, hybrid experiences blending music, food and drink, education, and entertainment.
Joined Danny Wimmer Presents as the VP of Experience & Partnerships to co-develop and launch the critically-acclaimed Bourbon & Beyond festival brand.
Co-led and produced creative, strategy, partnerships, and pouring of over 250 expressions from 20 bourbon companies.
Select companies include:
Bacardi
Beam Suntory
Brown-Forman
Diageo
Heaven Hill
Kirin
Pernod Ricard
Sazerac
In 2008, Evan was hired as the 13th employee by Superfly, the producers of Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Outside Lands Festival. Over the next seven years, he helped grow the company to over 100 employees by developing, pitching, and winning over $15MM in creative, strategic, and experiential work.
Joined Superfly as an intern. Hired as the 13th employee and became Associate Director of Creative & Strategy.
Co-designed the experience of Google I/O, the world’s most significant developer conference.
Overhauled the sponsorship strategy for international esports league Intel Extreme Masters.
Created the methodology and execution plans for multiple global influencer marketing and content campaigns for Citi, Target, Yahoo!, and more.
Select clients include:
Adult Swim
Asus
Ben & Jerry’s
GNC
JetBlue Airways
Nickelodeon
Pabst Brewing Company
Patrón Tequila
Evan is proud to be a second-generation American, born and raised in California by parents who immigrated from Taiwan and Myanmar (Burma). He has traveled to over 40 countries on six continents.
Lived in Inle Lake for six months to help open and setup Song of Travel, the fourth hostel in Myanmar and first built from the ground-up for backpackers (named “The 10th Best Small Hostel Worldwide” and “The Best Hostel in Myanmar” by Hostelworld).
Volunteered with Star Hostels in Taipei, Taiwan (named “The Best Large Hostel Worldwide” by Hostelworld).
Volunteered with The Yard Bangkok in Bangkok, Thailand (one of The Guardian’s “10 Best Sustainable Hotels in Southeast Asia“).
