Adventure & Travel Marketing was formed in 2004 after repeated requests and interest from several companies in the Adventure Travel & Backpacker markets looking at outsourcing their sales and marketing. They wanted a project-based solution, rather then taking on a full time marketing manager. The rest is history...

Our People

Company Director and CEO, Andrew Paltridge <email Andrew> has over 15 years of Travel Industry Experience. After completing a Bachelor of Business, Andrew worked for a major oil company in a marketing role. The lure of the great O.E. proved too great though and so with backpack in tow in 1989, he headed to Europe.

After much independent travel, Andrew decided that life as a tour manager running and organising tours would be fun, plus it would enable him to see more of the world whilst working.

Andrew decided that after 4 years of running tours for others, he wanted to try his luck running tours on his own, and so with 2 partners he organised and ran tours from London to Morocco and from London to Nepal.Returning to Australia, Andrew worked for almost 10 years for an international tour operator (Connections Adventures) as the National Sales and Marketing Manager where he was in charge of all sales and marketing for Australia and New Zealand.

He set up his own company, Adventure & Travel Marketing in 2004. Since then, he has worked as a consultant for various companies and organisations in the Adventure & Backpacker industry (more here).

Andrew also owns the Adventure Travel & Backpackers expo which runs annual consumer expos in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland. Andrew has 2 children and lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia...and is a very one-eyed Brisbane Lions AFL supporter.