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.
A group of Caribbean island states have come together to increase the cost of their golden passports and close off legal loopholes that allow discounted citizenship […]
Disney has previewed a number of new attractions at a California media event designed to prove its muscle after coming under recent criticism for not keeping […]
A tourist tax introduced in Manchester, UK, has raised £2.8 million (€3.27 million) in its first year. Aimed at attracting, not deterring visitors The city became […]
Venice, Italy, is soon to launch a trial €5 entry fee for access to the city’s historic centre, with failure to pay attracting hefty fines, officials […]
Fewer than 60 companies are responsible for 80% of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions since 2016, researchers have found. Worse still, those companies have increased, not decreased, […]
Unruly passenger behaviour on international flights is now such a problem that the UN global aviation body has called on member nations to ratify a treaty […]
Spain’s Canary Islands are considering bringing in a smoking ban on café and restaurant terraces, in a move aimed at reducing the risks of passive smoking […]
Travel and tourism is a healthy sector with a decade of booming success ahead, according to one of the world’s foremost industry bodies. The World Travel […]
Climbing Mount Everest via China and Tibet is about to become possible for foreign mountaineers again, with Chinese authorities set to start issuing permits for the […]
Alaska Airlines has received $160 million in initial compensation from aircraft manufacturer Boeing during the first quarter of 2024 after a plug door blowout that took […]
Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Geely Auto has unveiled an AI-integrated driverless vehicle system capable of performing like a professional racing driver, it says. Geely’s release on […]
The United States Congress has allocated $50 million to the State Department to “reduce passport backlogs and reduce visa wait times” in a move hailed by […]
With 6.2% of The Philippines’ 2022 GDP generated by tourism according to government figures, and international arrivals more than doubling in 2023, the island nation, like other […]