Alumni Lunch Lecture: Mr Graham Turner 'Flight Centre - 'Unbeatable' But Still A Long Way To Go'
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 07 November 2012
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
- Room:
- The Long Room
- UQ Location:
- Customs House (Customs House)
- URL:
- http://www.bel.uq.edu.au/alumni-lunch-lectures
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Mrs Kathrin Hofmann
- Phone:
- 07 33655 1546
- Email:
- k.hofmann@bel.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Business, Economics and Law
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Graham “Skroo” Turner was raised on an apple orchard near the Queensland town of Stanthorpe and later trained as a veterinarian at The University of Queensland.
After graduating from university, he worked as a vet in western Victoria before moving to London. In London, Skroo and friend Geoff Lomas took their first steps into the travel industry in 1973 when they purchased an ageing bus and started operating budget double-decker bus trips around Europe, North Africa and Asia.
After an eventful start, that company, Top Deck Travel, grew quickly and its success cemented Skroo's future in the travel industry. Top Deck Travel had grown into a thriving business with some 80 buses by the early 1980s, when he returned to Australia.
Skroo’s initial involvement with Top Deck ended in the mid 1980s, when he and his colleagues sold the business to management and devoted their full attention to Flight Centre, a business that had less than 30 shops at that time.
As the long serving Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the public company that grew from the small band of Flight Centre shops, Skroo has since presided over a golden era of growth and prosperity for Flight Centre Limited.
Flight Centre Limited now has more than 2,300 shops and businesses and 15,000 employees in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, China, India, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
The company’s corporate travel network, FCm Travel Solutions, extends to more than 70 other countries through licensing arrangements with independent local operators.
In addition to his involvement with Flight Centre, Skroo and his family own a string of prestigious resort properties in Queensland and New South Wales.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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