Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Amid a huge push by Thailand to bring in more international visitors and a Prime Ministerial target of 80-million tourists per year by 2027, the Southeast […]
City authorities in Barcelona have come up with a surprisingly simple tool in the struggle against overtourism: keeping a bus route secret from tourists. Local residents […]
Amid the solar eclipse craze sweeping Europe, heritage British cruise operator Cunard has announced where its ships will be positioned during the next totality, and the […]
Protesters are making their voices heard in Venice where the introduction of a new tourist fee is causing a rift. A €5 tourist tax, or “contribution” […]
Overtourism around the world has led to taxes and bylaws to protect local environments and heritage, and even the installation in some places of guerilla signage […]
The UK’s Heathrow Airport has denounced the introduction of an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) that requires a £10 payment as a “huge blow” to the country’s […]
Until the summer of 2025, the Eurostar terminal at Brussels Midi station will be undergoing restoration and expansion works. The terminal effectively acts as the border […]
Another Boeing engineer has turned whistleblower, with a filing to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the publication in the New York Times last week of […]
Multiple airlines saw flights through Middle Eastern airspace diverted, grounded or suspended over the weekend, after US warnings of “imminent” Iranian attacks on Israel turned into […]
Qatar Airways has escaped prosecution in Australia, after a failed attempt to bring a lawsuit against the airline by five women who were forcibly removed from […]
Airbus is ramping up investment to further drive home its advantage over Boeing, as the two manufacturers either side of the Atlantic slide further apart in […]
Hawaii could soon ban short-term rentals in a bid to address the islands’ housing and overtourism crisis, through two bills making their way through the legislative. […]
Nepal is set to clear tons of waste from Mount Everest, ahead of the opening of the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering window. The mammoth garbage collection operation […]
Amid growing criticism of Brexit’s impact on young people’s opportunities and calls for the UK’s full reintegration into Erasmus+, it has been revealed that the UK […]