Lifetime Achievement Award - Sponsored by Barbados Board of Tourism

The 2010 recipient - Harry Goodman

At only 24 years old, Harry Goodman founded Sunair Holidays, and with it became the first major entrepreneur in a travel industry which until then had been regarded as dull and conservative.

In 1970 Harry founded and the built the business that, perhaps more than any other, has defined the package holiday market: Intasun, which eventually became the International Leisure Group spawned such famous tour operating brands as Skyworld and Club 18-30. ILG became the 2nd largest UK tour operator and pioneered the Florida boom in 1979, bringing mass-market travel to UK holidaymakers as never before. He also pioneered airline operating: Air Europe was the earliest low-cost carrier, becoming the first pan European airline with bases in all major UK airports as well as Madrid; Palma, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia.

As the industry has evolved Harry has continued to reinvent himself: In 1997 he founded TV Travel Shop which was the world’s first 24/7 TV channel selling holidays direct to the public and was sold in 2002 to IAC Corporation. In 2005 he entered the cruise market, purchasing the Retail Travel Division of Page & Moy Ltd and founding Totally Travel whose major brand is 1st4cruising.

In tandem with an unparalleled career Harry has raised significant money for charitable causes. 
As Chief Barker of the Variety Club of Great Britain he raised in excess of £20m for disadvantaged children in the UK. 
Today, at 71 he’s still creating, launching, just before Christmas, Totally Worldwide and Cruise & Stay Worldwide through travel agents with an initial programme of 15,000 passengers.

Throughout his remarkable life he has inspired and influenced so many of today’s entrepreneurs and industry leaders, who rightly regard him as one of the travel industry’s true founding fathers.