About
Yen Lee is a travel omnivore who enjoys visiting iconic attractions, meeting locals, eating, getting outdoors, and just wandering around. He seizes on almost every opportunity to enjoy weekend getaways, boondoggle short leisure extensions on business trips, or escape for longer sabbaticals. In fact, not so long ago, he enjoyed a 6-month break with his two daughters and his wife to visit family in Singapore and Malaysia, tackle the Big Island of Hawaii, and attend a 25-person family reunion in Surrey, UK. Some of his favorite trips have been outdoors, whether it’s up in the Sierra Nevada, on a zip trek in Whistler, cycling through the Gulf Islands, or kayaking the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Yen is the founder of the travel site www.Kango.com, and has worked at companies such as Yahoo and City search. After years of working for online travel sites to provide travelers the best information, Yen is passionate about taking that that mission one step further to incorporate the environmental impacts of travel and the decisions travelers can make while on the road to mitigate those impacts.
When not working and hanging out with the family, Yen enjoys napping, dark chocolate, open-water racing and recently swam in his first competitive swim pool meet in almost 20 years at the world masters swim championships. Yen was born in Singapore and moved to Vancouver when he was 10. Yen graduated a longtime ago from the University of Western Ontario and then MIT.
Yen’s Green Travel Pet Peeve: Buying carbon offsets doesn’t really solve for the carbon we create when we travel.
