Presenting at travel industry events, chairing conferences and after-dinner speaking on the adventures and misadventures of a travel writer: Simon Calder has years of experience with each of these roles. Engagements include: hosting international aviation conferences, workforce-wide training sessions for major airports; after-dinner speaking and award presentations. In addition to these professional engagements, Simon regularly speaks on behalf of a variety of good causes.
Simon worked as a security guard at Gatwick airport frisking passengers. It was during the long gaps between flights that he began to write budget travel guidebooks, starting with the Hitch-hiker’s Manual: Britain. He has since researched and written guides to Amsterdam, Cuba, the Americas and eastern Europe.
Simon became travel editor for The Independent in 1994. Soon afterwards he began presenting for BBC2’s Travel Show. In 2003 he became a regular presenter for the Holiday programme on BBC1, and in 2007 presented the last film in the final programme of the series, which had run for 37 years.
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