Tim, tell us a bit more about yourself, your route into the industry and your career, and what wisdom you'll be sharing at the conference.
My relationship with the travel industry has largely been accidental (other than as a client). My first career was as an academic. I taught American (and British) politics at Oxford University.
A combination of poverty and ego led me to switch into journalism and become a mostly political writer at The Times. It was in that light that I first came across the ITT at its annual conference in Malta in 2003 when I was a late substitute as a speaker.
