Neil Lapping

Founder & CEO @ Macs Adventure

About

Founder and CEO of Macs Adventure, the world's leading operator of self guided walking, cycling and active adventures. Our purpose is to enable #MacsMoments (extraordinarily memorable travel moments) for our 40,000+ annual adventurers and ~200 colleagues. With offices in the UK, US and Germany (and big plans) we are striving to be the world's biggest and best adventure tour operator (our BHAG). Building a business that makes a difference to the world and sharing my passion for adventure travel with our community is what continues to motivate me professionally. Personal passions include hiking, snowboarding, kitesurfing, gravel biking and mountain biking in interesting places with interesting people.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Greater Glasgow Area

Industry

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Skill

Tourism, Adventure Travel, Leisure Travel, Event Management, Hotels, Marketing Strategy, Hospitality, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Leisure, Online Advertising, SEO, Tour Operators, Sales Management, Small Business, Public Relations, Marketing, Online Travel, Travel Management, Vacation

Experience

Founder & CEO

Macs Adventure

2003-6 - Present · 23 yrs 4 mos

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Founded in 2003 Macs Adventure specialises in self guided walking and cycling holidays.

Managing Director (Geschäftsführer)

AbenteuerWege

2015-1 - Present · 11 yrs 9 mos

Saarbrücken, Germany

Founded in January 2015 as an independent German subsidiary of Macs Adventure AbeneteuerWege Reisen offers self guided walking and cycling holidays to German speaking markets. AbenteuerWege Reisen is on target to welcome over 1000 customer in 2016.

Director

Adventure Networks Limited

2009-2 - 2011-4 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Adventure Networks brings together adventures, activities and tours from leading local tour operators making it easy for you to find and book adventures, activities and tours.

Waterfront Manager

Mark Warner

1998-4 - 2001-11 · 3 yrs 8 mos

As waterfront manager at Mark Warner's largest resort responsibilities included managing a large team of instructors, delivering a safe and enjoyable watersports program for up to 700 guests. Project managing the setup of the facility and training of staff at the beginning of season. Working with the hotel management team to deliver holidays that exceeded expectations.

Education

University of Cape Town

Business Finance, Accounting, Economics

1994 - 1997 · 3 yrs

This degree is a multi-faceted business course run by the faculty of commerce. I specialised in business finance but the course was wide ranging and covered accountancy, economics, marketing, IT and HR. A strong theoretical base which I combined with the lessons learnt from successfully running my own small business during second year.