Mark Lalor

Product Manager

Mark is a groups product manager for Academy Travel, designing new itineraries and implementing their arrangements. He has a particular expertise in our tours to the Middle and Near East, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Mark has a broad history of twenty years in the travel industry, having worked with in-bound Japanese tourism for Thomas Cook, as a flight attendant with Qantas and as the coordinator of the study tour program at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sydney. A fluent Japanese speaker, Mark spent three years working in Japan. He has followed his love of travel through Australia and the South East Asia, most of continental Europe and the USA – but he has also enjoyed trips to lesser-known destinations such as Laos, Ethiopia and Burma. Mark is a born aesthete and always knows the best place to dine in any given city.