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.
In a further move to loosen travel restrictions and boost its travel sector and international influence, China is extending short stay visa-free travel for 12 countries […]
China Southern Airlines’ highly anticipated launch of direct flights between Beijing Daxing and Tehran, Iran, has been delayed due to Iran’s recent military strikes and heightening […]
Authorities in China issued new guidelines delineating significant improvements to payment services for international travellers at starred hotels and tourist destinations. The guidelines were released by […]
During last week’s extended Qingming Festival weekend, domestic travel and spending in China rose more than 10% above pre-pandemic levels. Traditionally, the Qingming Festival, also known […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of China’s three major air carriers, China Southern Airlines, has announced plans for 17 more international routes with a fanfare as it launched its first […]
China’s development of a vast train network across Southeast Asia continues. Projects in Laos, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia could eventually lead to a 3,000-kilometre-plus bullet and […]
The first “Chinese-made” aircraft intended for commercial passenger flights has made an appearance at the Singapore Airshow, re-sparking questions over the plane’s potential to compete with […]
In the pursuit of kickstarting the return of international tourists, after being one of the latest countries to lift travel restrictions, China has been rolling out […]
Chinese researchers have developed a way of turning photographs into lifelike videos. The new AI tool, EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, can animate a single static […]
With a surface of 9.6 million square kilometres and a population of over a million inhabitants, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Chinese food scene […]
Following stricter and longer Covid-related travel restrictions, Chinese citizens have taken longer to return to their pre-pandemic travel habits. Destinations once busting with groups of Chinese […]
Chinese tourists have provided a much-needed boost to tourism figures across Southeast Asia and in other parts of the world, according to various sources scrutinising the […]