✅ Travel Massive, London Chapter Director.
✈️ With extensive global marketing experience, Matthew has worked for a variety of travel businesses from start-ups to large matrix organisations including Choice Hotels and International Airlines Group, owner of British Airways and Iberia. In 2024 he join FINN Partners in the capacity of Senior Vice President, Travel & Tourism. A role in which he Leads the development and execution of marketing, communication and sales strategies for a portfolio of travel, tourism and destination clients.
Well networked within the travel industry he is the Director of Travel Massive London, a longstanding member of the Institute of Travel and Tourism’s Education and Training Committee and a Content Advisor to World Travel Market.
In 2023 Matthew was proud to be a “male agent of change” finalist in the Everywoman awards and was previously recognised as one of the travel industry’s “30 under 30” by TTG Media.
A strong and international academic background includes time with Harvard Business School, Nanyang Technology University, The University of Surrey and at the London College of Music.
🎙️ A keynote speaker and company spokesperson, Matthew has presented at numerous conferences including Air Convention Digital Week, Eye for Travel, Social Media London Live, The National Hotel Marketing Conference and Global Insight’s Travel Marketing Conference. In November 2024, Matthew will be the co-host of WTM's Marketing Summit with Tina Antwi.
Marketing & Product Executive with a luxury tour operator.
Happy Monday, Following in the footsteps of Rich Liu, Chip Conley, Gloria Loree and Travel Massive founder Ian Cumming, I'm delighted to have been a guest on the Travel Trends Podcast. 🎙✨ In our conversation, Dan Christian and I explored the compellin... show more
London Travel Massive 15 days ago
What a night it was. Thank you again to everyone who supported the evening. Having a strong startup ecosystem is so important for the travel industry and the UK economy. The entrenched processes that drive operations in successful, large businesses ca... show more
Photos from London's Innovation and Pitch Night 4 months ago
There are lots of exciting Travel Massive events coming up this June: 🇨🇦 Toronto, 🇪🇸 Barcelona, 🇮🇪 Dublin, 🇺🇸 Nashville 🇳🇬 Lagos and 🇬🇧 London. I'm particularly excited about our next London event on the 27th June. We're partnering with Stripe and the Entrep... show more
London Travel Massive 5 months ago
Hi Lindsay, Being visible on Travel Massive is a great start! Have as many conversations as you can. Connect with people, work your network, attend relevant meet-ups and don't be afraid of asking people for help and ideas. I'd recommend not necessaril... show more
Thank you to everyone who made our Future of Personalised Pricing event with Stripe such a success and so much fun. Here's a short summary of the evening and a few photos: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthewgardiner_travelmassive-revenuemanagement-t... show more
London Travel Massive 7 months ago