Mark Hodson, Group Editor

Mark is group editor and co-founder of 101 Holidays. He spent more than 12 years as a full-time travel writer for The Sunday Times and has written for numerous other publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The FT. In September 2010, He was voted one of the Top 50 Travel Writers in the UK in a poll of fellow journalists for Press Gazette magazine.

Mark became a travel writer after quitting an office job to spend three years backpacking around Asia and Latin America. Unwilling to return to a 9-to-5, he became a freelance journalist specialising in travel.

Now married with two children, he continues to travel regularly and writes for The Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine. He also works as an internet marketing consultant.

Mark’s favourite countries include Italy, India, Spain, South Africa, large parts of the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.

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