About us.
Leisure Lab was founded by Tim Bilman, Tom Aussems and Mark Mackintosh, experienced travel professionals working for Columbus Travel, the leading travel magazine in the Netherlands and Belgium. Travel is not just a job for us but our heart and soul. Through the years, we have discussed and built a common vision for the future of tourism. It’s time to share that vision with the rest of the world!
As a location scout for the (inter)national film world, Tim has explored every nook and cranny of the Netherlands. He is also a regular contributor to Columbus Travel. His photos, which highlight the intrinsic beauty of humanity and planet Earth, grace dozens of the magazine's travel features. He once accidentally dined with a prince of Brunei and was the first photographer to document the impact of climate change on the islands of Sierra Leone.
Tom Aussems.
As editor for Columbus Travel, Tom has been closely involved with the content and direction of the leading Dutch-language magazine for the past five years. His encyclopaedic geographical knowledge comes in handy during pub quiz rounds or on one of his many adventures around the globe, including a solo kayaking trip in the Pacific and an epic expedition in a remote corner of Iceland during the worst summer in a hundred years.
Mark Mackintosh.
Land ahoy! As editor-in-chief of Columbus Travel, Mark always wants to know what’s next on the horizon. Which travel destinations and trends will steal our hearts and minds? No wonder, then, you can just as easily find him in a tapas bar in a back alley of a Spanish provincial town as on the edge of an Ethiopian lava lake or between silverbacks in the jungle of Gabon.