I have over 14 years experience in the travel industry, working in tour operation prior to joining Black Diamond. This has helped me garner a full understanding of the travel trade ecosystem. I joined Black Diamond 9 years ago and during that time have worked on managing and developing the travel trade side of the…

Lee Hayhurst joined Real Response Media as Editorial Director after spending 13 years at Jacobs Media Group, publisher of UK B2B travel trade market leader Travel Weekly and specialist travel and technology title Travolution. He was Head of News at Travel Weekly and editor of Travolution before moving to focus full time on Travolution as…

Lina started her travel career at lastminute.com, working her way up to head of the European Partnerships across seven markets and growing and building new partnerships to drive growth. With a huge passion for digital and technology, she worked for an agency before moving to Travel Supermarket where she worked for over eight years, working…

Nathan has worked in cruise for more than 12 years in various positions which has given him an incredibly rounded and insightful understanding of the industry. Starting out in Carnival House with brands such as Seabourn & Holland America Line, he then worked onboard with Princess Cruises before returning to land with a leading online…

Dan Christian is host of the popular global podcast ‘Travel Trends’, a sought after speaker and a trusted advisor for many startups and companies. He has extensive travel industry experience as the former Chief Digital Officer at The Travel Corporation, one of the world’s largest and oldest travel companies, where he was responsible for leading…

Caroline Donaldson is well-known leader within the travel industry with almost three decades of experience – with the last 20 years spent with the Barrhead Travel Group. After joining Barrhead Travel as a part-time longhaul consultant in 2003, Caroline grew in step with the business, progressing to longhaul manager before taking up the position as…

40 years of travel industry experience has resulted in Tricia Handley-Hughes taking the helm for InteleTravel. As the UK and Ireland Managing Director, the role holds full fiscal and commercial responsibility for the world’s largest (and oldest) host agency for travel homeworking with 15,300 agents in the UK and 400 in Ireland. InteleTravel launched the first homeworking…