Mary Tebje is a tourism professional with considerable international marketing, travel trade and PR experience having worked at a senior level for visitor attractions, emerging destinations and DMO’s in the UK and South Africa. The grassroots is a place where Mary prefers to spend her professional time, and so left the corporate world in 2000, where she had worked at a senior level in customer experience and marketing management for leading London-based visitor attractions including Madame Tussaud's and the Tower Bridge Experience. Mary began her consultancy career running a DMO in London’s docklands, in the days before the Olympic Games were even a twinkle in the Mayor’s eyes. Forging a new visitor offer and brand identity for a part of London that had perception and awareness problems, Mary and her team worked tirelessly with new tourism suppliers, accommodation providers, museums and visitor attractions, media and travel trade to bring accessible products and itineraries alongside enhanced economic benefits and way of delivering that produced spectacular results. Mary has kept her business small, only working with clients she knows and respects, who come to her through word of mouth recommendation. She has partnered with the Tourism Network on numerous occasions to deliver successful and innovative tourism campaigns and training. A consummate professional and doer, Mary prefers to be on the sharp end, successfully implementing projects and campaigns on time and within budget. Mary worked for 4 years as UK trade and media representative for Cape Town Tourism in the UK market intitally for reputation management and representing the Cape Town World Cup 2010 offer to the media and travel trade. The results speak for themselves as do the professional B2B relationships that have been developed that now play a key role in the retention of the UK as the no.1 inbound market for South Africa. Founder member of the Chilterns Tourism Network Ltd.