After three years in New York he moved to Johannesburg as Director Southern Africa for BTA, then to Belgium as Director Business Travel Northern Europe, then finally back to Dallas as Director Southern States. Fearing the next move would be back to London he resigned from the BTA and in 1990 started Travel Trade Marketing (USA) Inc.
Although the nature of his business is the promotion of a variety of destinations David is adamant that the best place in the world is Portugal.