Owner Profile
Douglas Bevans is lifelong entrepreneur and artist. His expansive knowledge in tour operation and program curation as well as his success as an artist qualifies him as a highly capable and informed contributor to the Sunshine Coast’s artist community.
For the last 16 years he has spent the majority of his time developing his student educational travel company, Nomad Travel Ltd. The company offers curated two-week programs in Western and Central Canada. Nomad Travel acted as sole Canadian partner to the world-renowned People to People, Student Ambassador Programs, which was created by US President, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Through them, Nomad has safely travelled over 11,000 students through Canada.
Douglas studied art at MacEwan University. As an artist, his most recent installation Hot Dog Water captured worldwide attention and was featured in over 200 publications, including Time Magazine, USA Today and Fox News.
In 2009 he was awarded a coveted three-month composition residency at the Banff Centre, where the seed of the idea for his most ambitious art project, The Trojan Horse was rooted. The project involved 75 volunteers, took two years to complete, and came to fruition in August of 2011 at Burning Man. The massive wooden horse stood five stories high, weighed 29 tons, and was pulled across the desert by 500 in-character Greek slaves.
Other artistic ventures of note include playing music professionally for 10 years in the popular indie/punk band, the smalls. In 2014, the band reformed and played a series of sold out shows across Canada, which included two back-to-back shows at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom and culminated with an award-winning feature film on the band, Forever Is A Long Time.
Owned and operated by Nomad Travel Ltd.
