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.
The Chinese are venturing abroad again in numbers, visa application data and demand for Schengen visas reveal. Visa applications for foreign travel by Chinese citizens have […]
The stricken luxury goods sector is unlikely to pick up any time soon, commentators have warned, with one of the key market drivers, Chinese spending, under […]
UK-based airline Virgin Atlantic has announced it will stop flying the London Heathrow – Shanghai route after October, due to “significant challenges and complexities”. The carrier […]
A record-breaking indoor ice and snow theme park has opened in Harbin, northeast China, building on the city’s ice lantern traditions, and the success of its […]
A new flight connection offering three returns a week between Brussels and Shanghai has been inaugurated, offering passengers a fresh direct route between the Belgian and […]
China has more than doubled the number of foreign visitors arriving in the country year-on-year, official border control figures show. The remarkable increase follows the introduction […]
China has introduced a 5-year travel permit for permanent, non-Chinese residents of the semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Starting Wednesday, 10 July, foreign citizens […]
As China’s opening up to the rest of the world continues, Australia and New Zealand are to become the latest countries to benefit from visa-free travel […]
The Yungang Grottoes are a UNESCO world heritage site in Datong, Shanxi Province. In 2023, a record 3 million visitors descended on the area which boasts […]
The world’s tourism sector reached an estimated $3.3 trillion, equivalent to 3% of global GDP in 2023, according to United Nations figures for the year, and […]
The architect studio behind a new science and technology museum in the Chinese island province of Hainan, in the South China Sea, has revealed the latest […]
Hong Kong’s rapprochement with mainland China continues with a new high-speed sleeper train that will connect the special administrative region with Beijing and Shanghai, halving the […]
Inbound tourism from Southeast Asia to China in 2024 is now beating pre-pandemic figures, booking platform Klook Travel Technology has said, and overall tourist numbers could […]
Fans of sci-fi franchises will be intrigued to hear a robot caretaker could soon board China’s Tiangong Space Station. Resembling more a robot stormtrooper than C-3PO, […]
Edging ahead in the race to reduce vehicle charging times, a Chinese partnership is set to build the world’s first ultra-fast charging systems for electrical vertical […]