David W SkillanAs a young traveller and trailblazer who wandered the world on a shoestring throughout the 1960s, David Skillan vowed the next time he travelled it would be in greater comfort. This ambition would be realized when he was employed by a London-based Swss travel organization seeking a foothold in the British travel market. For David, it was the beginning of a lengthy and varied 45-year career in the travel industry during which he escorted well over 200 long-haul tours to many of the places he'd first visited as a youthful globetrotter.

In 1976, he moved with his young family to Canada where he ran his own successful travel company. He also published a travel newsletter for more than thirty-five years. An incurable romantic and self-described free spirit, David counts himself lucky to have seen much of the world from both the 'roughest and smoothest' of angles.

A long-time resident of Vancouver, BC, David is a retired tour operator, tour manager, writer and photographer. He maintains strong ties with the British Isles, the land of his birth, and likes nothing more than visiting his home country every so often. Read More Read Less