Mike Batt
Chairman at Internova Travel Group.
- Role
- Founder and Chairman at Internova Travel Group
- Location
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Founder and Chairman
Mar 2008 — Present
Internova was started in January 2008 through a management buy out of Carlson Leisure Group. Our brands include GTC, Travel Leaders, Tzell Travel, Protravel, Altour, Vacation.com, Nexion, Cruise Specialists, R Crusoe and Son, Roadtrips, Andrew Harper Travel, Barrhead Travel, Colletts Travel (UK), Cruisedeals.com, All Aboard Travel, CruCon Cruise Outlet, Singlescruise.com, and Corporate Travel Services (Mexico.) We have grown to become North America\'s largest travel agency network with post Covid travel sales of $22 billion and more than travel advisors working within our various brands.We are by a large margin, North America\'s largest luxury travel agency.I was inducted into the UK Travel Industry Hall of Fame in 2014.I am also a co founder and shareholder of Matrix Plastics - a UK based company which specializes in exact and perfect coloring for the plastics and medical industries as well as a sister company that specializes in providing food coloring for major food manufacturers throughout the world. I am a co - founder and major shareholder in Synergy Plastics - a leading UK plastic injection molder.Also an Advisor and investor with Certares LLP - a Private Equity Partnership with substantial investments in travel and other sectors. Certares is based in New York.For the past 20 years I have also owned 101 Ocean Finally I am a Board Member and significant shareholder in NeuroCytonix A Medtech company that has developed extremely exciting and revolutionary non invasive technology to treat a number of incurable neurological disorders. The company has recently completed a FDA supervised double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial for Cerebral Palsy. We have submitted the completed trial to Cofepris ( a level IV WHO approved regulator) and our trial has been accepted for safety and efficacy. The clinical trial results will be published for peer review later this year.That\'s it - for now.
Education
Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
Bachelor of Science, Economics and Materials
1972 — 1975
Skills
- Event Planning
- Executive Management
- Business Planning
- Travel Planning
- Travel Technology
- Venture Financing
- Honeymoons
- Leisure Travel
- Sales
- Car Rental
- Sustainable Tourism
- Travel Management
- Public Relations
- Leisure
- Cruises
- Online Travel
- Incentives
- Incentive Travel
- Tourism
- Marketing
- Trade Shows
- Destination Marketing
- Sales Management
- Online Marketing
- Management Buyouts
- Vacation
- Sabre
- Online Advertising
- Hospitality
- Resorts
- Global Travel Management
- Hotels
- Event Management
- Meeting Planning
- Negotiation
- Marketing Strategy
- Mergers
- Contract Negotiation
- Adventure Travel
- New Business Development
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