Montenegro: Responsible and Sustainable Tourism
Aleksandra Maksimović, Managing Director of Communications, National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro, explains how responsible and sustainable tourism are key to the country’s development plans. In Montenegro we are extremely committed…
Travel and Tourism : a Clean and Green Future
Travel Begins at 40 Founder, Mark Bibby Jackson, argues that the travel and tourism sector should move towards a clean and green future as it recovers from a calamitous 2020….
Contactless Payment For Hotels
Many hotels are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by turning to contactless payment and other solutions. While this might appear to be something specific to the industry, it is best…
Sustainable Hastings Fish and Ships
Hastings has the biggest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe, and its iconic Net Shops. Travel Begins at 40 chats with Stella Landau, Fish Festivals Organiser, about the sustainable Hastings Fish…
European Health Insurance Card after Brexit
The current impasse in negotiations between the EU and UK over the terms of the latter’s exit from the former raises the increased likelihood of a No-Deal resolution to Brexit…
Isabella Garofanelli: Luxury Travel on the Go
Travel Begins at 40 chats with Isabella Garofanelli who gave up a corporate job with a blue-chip multinational media company to travel the world full-time. The founder and CEO of…
Future of Myanmar Travel Post-COVID19 Podcast
Welcome to the third Travel Begins at 40 podcast. In it we will discuss the future of Myanmar Travel post-COVID19. I’m Mark Bibby Jackson, one of the founders of the…
Up Close with Alan Heywood Ffestiniog Travel
To say that Ffestiniog Travel Director Alan Heywood is a veteran of the rail travel industry would be something of an understatement. Alan’s rail industry experience stretches all the way…
The Future of Travel is the Future of Our Planet
The world has changed over the past couple of months – so drastically that many predict it will never be the same again. Change can be bad, but it also…
Coronavirus and Travel: the End and the Future
The world of travel has changed perhaps for ever. There can be no doubting the impact that the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has had on tourism. Many of the people who…
Coronavirus Travel Advice: Is It Safe to Travel?
Mark Bibby Jackson provides some coronavirus travel advice as well as guidance to those people asking the question – is it safe to travel to Europe? As the number of…
Virtual Conferences: the Future for Travel
In the aftermath of the last minute cancellation of the world’s largest world trade travel show Mark Bibby Jackson argues the case for considering virtual conferences and conventions – are…
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