Martin Winter

For more than 45 years Martin has lead the Tourism industry in Europe, South America and Australia.  Since 2008 he has been CEO of Australia’s largest private-sector tourism marketing company, Gold Coast Tourism Corporation, and prior to this was CEO of the Adelaide Convention & Tourism Authority for 8 years.  Career highlights span the globe including VP Marketing with Le Cordon Bleu, the French hotel and gastronomy sector multinational and Professor at Brazil’s national university – Universidade de Brasilia. He has chaired the Regional Tourism Boards of both South Australia and Queensland, the AACB, Conventions Australia and ICCA Asia/Pacific. In 2014 Martin was one of three global leaders inducted in Frankfurt to the IMEX Academy.