Managing Partner, The Tourism Business & Organiser, SET-JET25
Martin runs the tourism consultancy/event organisers The Tourism Business specialising in niche tourism sectors including film and tv tourism. A former director of Yorkshire Tourist Board and Yorkshire Screen Commission, he wrote four definitive Insights market reports for VisitBritain on the subject. and has worked in this sector with national and regional tourist boards, county and district councils, and private sector tourism operators.
Martin founded and organised the London International Screen Tourism Conference in 2007 and was also involved in organising similar events in 2011, 2014 and 2016, the latter two being EuroScreen conferences with VisitBritain and Film London. Martin also helped Cheshire maximise the screen legacy for the county’s attractions around and after the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. He has presented at conferences on screen tourism in London, Birmingham, Scotland, Ireland, France and Spain, and once met with producer Tim Bevan and his product placement team at Pinewood Studios to discuss the screen tourism potential of big-screen “Thunderbirds”.
