Steven opened Majestic Travel in 1967. He sold three of its offices to Airtours in 1995 and the remaining office was sold in 2008. He was a director of ABTA for eighteen years and was its President from 1997 to 2000. Steven was also Chairman of Advantage Travel Centres from 2004 until 2008 and was elected Chairman of the Triton Group in 2008. He has been Chairman of the investment holding company, Alpha Prospects plc., since 2007. In July 2009 Steven was awarded a Doctorate by Leeds Beckett University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.