As we arrived at London Heathrow Airport to meet our first flight to Hong Kong, it was clear that all our clients could not wait to board the plane and begin their 2016 Hong Kong 7s tour.
I started working at Gullivers in October 1994, but previously I worked for a Marketing Agency in the PR Department handling contracts for eight companies in the travel/leisure sector.
After university, I spent a year working and travelling in Australia and New Zealand, including running a backpacker Travel Agency in Brisbane. When I came back to the UK, I applied for a job at Gullivers to work on Rugby World Cup 1999.
I was working in Paris and moved back to the UK where I joined Gullivers back in March 1985, and was on a plane to the Hong Kong 7s within a few days. It's been go, go, go ever since!
Sam took over the reigns as Managing Director of Gullivers Sports Travel in April 2014, and is still the Managing Director of a number of other brands within TUI Group's Events International Group - Edwin Doran, Masterclass, ILOVETour and Off
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