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.
Calls for the US to open up its aviation regulations to reduce airline ticket prices are being renewed, with the consumer price index showing a 25% […]
US-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT real-time web search capability, powered by AI, in a move that heats up the ongoing competition […]
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The global tourism industry has grown even stronger in 2024, according to new data revealed at the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit in […]
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Archaeologists have discovered two lost Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan, in a finding that could forever change our understanding of the ancient trade route and its […]
The southern Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau is on track to gain a new high-capacity international cruise port, if a project currently undergoing feasibility studies […]
Researchers at a US university have discovered an immense complex of previously unexplored Mayan settlements in Mexico. The findings include over 6,500 structures, pyramids and evidence […]
Interest in so-called “dark tourism” has been around for a while, long enough for commentators to debate whether visits to historic memorials, such as Germany’s concentration […]
Visa-free travel for Indian visitors to Moscow could be coming as early as spring 2025, according to officials, in a bid to capitalise on growing numbers […]
The 29th Tashkent International Tourism Fair (TITF) is set to take place from 21 to 23 November 2024, focusing on “Tourism on the Silk Road”. The largest tourism […]