About
Travel has been the constant
thread of my working life.
I began in tourism more than forty years ago and have since built companies, led international teams, worked at board level, and partnered with destinations, operators, cultural institutions, and technology providers across multiple continents. I’ve seen cycles come and go, trends rise and fade, and good ideas succeed or fail depending on how well they were understood and applied.
A Life Shaped by Travel
Travel has been the constant thread through my working life. It has shaped how I see people, places, and the connections between them.
How I work
Judgement
Good decisions rarely come from theory alone. They come from experience, context, and the ability to see patterns. I bring judgement shaped by years of building, leading, and advising travel businesses, and by understanding how ideas actually play out in practice.
Collaboration
I work best alongside people, not above them. Collaboration means listening carefully, challenging constructively, and thinking things through together. The strongest outcomes usually come from shared understanding rather than imposed answers.
Clarity
Complexity is part of modern travel, but confusion doesn’t have to be. I focus on helping people clarify what really matters, strip ideas back to their essentials, and make decisions that feel considered rather than rushed.
Independence
I value independence of thought. I’m not tied to frameworks, vendors, or predetermined outcomes, which allows me to be honest, objective, and useful. Sometimes that means confirming a direction. Sometimes it means questioning it.
TheTravellingMan.org
This site is a personal space. It exists to capture thoughts, conversations, and observations gathered over a lifetime in travel. Some of what you’ll find here is reflective, some practical, and much of it shaped by discussions with people working across tourism, culture, and experience-led businesses around the world.
Not everything here is intended to lead to work. Sometimes it’s simply about sharing perspective, asking better questions, or recording ideas while they’re still forming. It usually starts with a conversation rather than a proposal. it doesn’t, and how we keep people, stories, and places at the centre of the experience.
Thoughts, conversations, and observations shaped by a life in travel and the people met along the way.
The Travelling Man is a personal archive of journeys, conversations, and observations from across cultures and industries.
A career in brief
My career has unfolded across several chapters, but always within travel. I began on the operational side of the industry, working close to guides, guests, and the realities of delivering experiences day to day. That grounding shaped everything that followed. Over time, my roles expanded into leadership and ownership, building and running travel businesses, managing international teams, and navigating the challenges that come with growth, change, and shifting markets.
Much of my work has sat at the intersection of experience, technology, and operations.I’ve spent years helping organisations adapt to new ways of delivering travel experiences, whether through digital platforms, guiding systems, event design, or new commercial models. Alongside this, I’ve worked at board level, advising on strategy, partnerships, and long-term direction in an industry that rarely stands still for long.
Throughout, I’ve remained closely connected to the field, continuing to guide, work with destinations and cultural institutions, and stay involved in how experiences are actually delivered on the ground. That balance between boardroom and frontline has been a constant theme, and one I value highly.
Today, my work brings those strands together. I advise, speak, write, mentor, and
represent organisations across the travel and tourism sector, drawing on experience rather than theory, and on perspective shaped over time rather than trends of the moment.
Over time, this has led me to work across two closely connected worlds, each informing the other in different but complementary ways.
Two worlds, one perspective
The work I do today sits across two distinct areas, both rooted in experience design and human interaction.
One is focused on advisory and strategic thinking within travel and tourism. The other centres on designing and delivering live experiences through corporate and private events. Together, they reinforce a single perspective shaped by planning, execution, and real-world delivery.
Where ideas become experiences
Consulting & Advisory
My consulting and advisory work is grounded in the travel and tourism sector, where I’ve spent much of my career building, leading, and advising businesses at different stages of growth.
I typically work with founders, executives, and senior teams who are navigating change, testing new ideas, or refining how they deliver experiences. This might involve strategy discussions, product or programme development, technology adoption, or helping teams think through how their offer translates in practice.
The emphasis is always on clarity and judgement rather than frameworks. I bring an external perspective informed by operational reality, international markets, and board-level experience, helping organisations make decisions that are both ambitious and workable.
MSP Concepts (corporate events & experiences)
Alongside my advisory work, I’m involved in MSP Concepts, which brings together consultancy and live experience delivery under one structure.
This work focuses primarily on corporate events and live experiences, from leadership and team gatherings to launches and internal milestones. Over the years, this has included work for established international organisations as well as privately owned businesses, always with an emphasis on thoughtful design, smooth delivery, and human connection.
Staying close to delivery keeps my thinking grounded. It sharpens judgement, reinforces the importance of execution, and continually informs how I approach advisory and ambassadorial work elsewhere.