The Team

Mike Newman has been working in the Travel Trade since 1998, initially undertaking the Sales and Marketing for the BITOA (now UKinbound) Visitor Guide and the British Tourist Authority (now Visit Britain) London and Britain Maps as Business Development Manager for Visitmap. In the advent of increasingly popular internet advertising by the end of 2002, Mike saw the opportunity to increase the contact between museums, galleries and visitor attractions with Tour Operators and Travel Agents in key markets by offering a cost effective representation for complementary products, thereby creating simple itinerary ideas for FIT clients as well as groups under the brand name b2me.

Over the years that followed, Mike has built up a wide portfolio of clients across the Travel Industry providing representation, strategy and marketing support in the UK and internationally.

Mike is a Board member of UKinbound and is also retained to provide marketing strategy and consultancy for the Group Travel Organiser’s Association (GTOA) – the leading association for the UK domestic groups market.

 Andrew Macnair has worked in the tourism, arts, and heritage sectors at a senior management level across a range of commercial, not for profit and public sector organisations including Shakespeare Globe Trust (where he was Director of Marketing), Historic Royal Palaces and the British Tourist Authority (now known as Visit Britain).

Andrew has both hands on and strategic experience of tourism and heritage marketing, sales and business development both to the travel trade and consumer in the UK and internationally as well as in depth knowledge and experience of procurement and contract negotiation, customer services, branding, project management and change management.

 
Arabella Nairne has over 20 years experience in business development and general management within the UK and internationally, running business units in Australia and North America . She has a passion for partnership and loyalty marketing, and has specialised in start up and business turnaround projects. Arabella has worked in both public and private sector in commercial roles, primarily within the tourism and leisure industry, but also within international education management.