As Chair of Destination Mekong Mark Bibby Jackson welcomes the 2022 Destination Mekong Summit which will be held in a hybrid format on 14-15 December in Phnom Penh. Following his election to the Destination Mekong Board, Bibby Jackson was elected chair of the private regional tourism board of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), earlier in […]
Travel and lifestyle website Cambodia Begins at 40 launches today, 10 October 2022. Cambodia is a country that is constantly evolving as new venues open, off-the-beaten-track adventures emerge, new places are discovered and familiar haunts are redeveloped. With so much going on, it can be hard to keep track. That’s where Cambodia Begins at 40 comes in. […]
Mark Bibby Jackson, founder of Travel Begins at 40, was elected to the Destination Mekong Board on 3 June, as an Executive Board Member. Bibby Jackson has been working closely with the regional destination marketing organisation for the past year, acting as editor-at-large for the forthcoming Mekong Stories publication. “It is an honour to be […]
The Cheshire and High Life North magazines and Euronews all published articles by Mark Bibby Jackson in August. Bibby Jackson wrote about which European countries should you consider visiting as travel re-starts for The Cheshire Magazine, and international destinations to consider for your next trip for High Life North. Euronews published Bibby Jackson’s article on […]
Travel Begins at 40 editor Mark Bibby Jackson appeared on Food Travel Talk TV on 21 July when he was interviewed by the show’s founder and presenter Erik Wolf. Bibby Jackson talked on a plethora of subjects from his vast range of travel experiences, especially in Southeast Asia. He explained how he beleived that getting […]
Mark Bibby Jackson has been appointed editor of eXist : the Climate Friendly Travel bulletin by SunX Malta. The first issue was released on 1 July and featured an interview with Willem Niemeijer, founder of tour operator Khiri Travel, and CEO of YAANA Ventures. In 2020, Bibby Jackson started a course in Climate Friendly Tourism […]
With the UK capital slowly emerging from lockdown Mark Bibby Jackson, founder and editor of the website Travel Begins at 40 felt it was the perfect time to launch his latest enterprise, lifestyle website London Begins at 40 on 17 May 2021. The new website is the second in the … Begins at 40 portfolio […]
Brand new travel website – www.travelbeginsat40.com – launched earlier this month (September 2017). The website, which unsurprisingly is focused at the 40 plus traveller, intends to specialise in travel articles and news stories from cultural tourism to homestays, adventure travel and eco-tourism.
Mark Bibby Jackson’s debut Cambodia novel To Cook A Spider has received international recognition at the prestigious 2016 Gourmand Word Cookbook Awards. The competition’s jury announced that To Cook A Spider was the national winner for Cambodia in the categories of Best Self-Published Book and Best Asian Cuisine Book, on January 10.
Following on from the success of his debut novel To Cook A Spider, which has won twin prizes at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Mark Bibby Jackson’s second Cambodia novel, Peppered Justice, was released in November 2016.