Martin is a Director of Classic Collection Holidays and Managing Director of Brackenbury & Partners.

Formerly a Director of Thomson, Panorama, Airtours and Exodus Holidays he was also a Professor at Nottingham University.

He has served for a number of years for industry bodies including FTO, IFTO, ABTA and UNWTO.

He has carried out many missions researching for and advising the Government and the private sector on suistable tourism developments in more than forty countries in the past thirty years.

He was honoured by the British Travel & Hospitality Hall of Fame in 1998.