#1976 - Camp-site courier in Brittany for Eurocamp #1975-6 - Traveled overland to Israel, worked on Kibbutz Yasur#1976 - Overseas Manager for Eurocamp, a small family run camping holidays tour operator#1980 - General Manager in 1980 of Eurocamp, appointed # 1983 - Managing Director#1988 - Led £32m management buy-out #1991 - Led £54m flotation of Eurocamp Eurocamp plc (renamed Holidaybreak in 1998) grew into a very profitable, broadly based holiday tour operating business with a £320m market capitalisation and a blue chip institutional shareholder register. #2005 - Retired from Holidaybreak at the end of 2005 and since then continued working within the UK travel sector on a part-time basis, combining this with more active pursuit of varied sporting and leisure interests. Since 2005 have advised various companies and private equity investors on business strategy and travel business acquisitions and sales, including the sales of Rainbow Tours (to Western & Oriental plc), Edwin Doran Sports Travel (to Tui plc), All-ways Pacific (to APT), Heritage Group Travel (to Martin Randall) and Andante Travels to Specialist Tours.As a partner in Atkinson Lambert, I have provided corporate finance and strategy advice to a wide range of travel businesses including, recently, advising on the sale of Journey latin America to DER Touristik/Kuoni UK. I have an ongoing advisory relationship with walking holidays specialist Macs Adventure.I have also run successful training courses for AITO on Business Strategy and Buying and Selling Travel BusinessesSpecialties: Travel sector strategy and company sales/acquisitions