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.
For decades, France has occupied an almost unassailable position at the top of global tourism. In 2025, it did so again, welcoming a record 102 million […]
Climate change is driving unprecedented European ocean temperatures, with severe impacts on marine life, new research has found, as the phenomenon pushes marine species into cooler waters, disrupts food webs, and increases the risk […]
Europe continues to dominate global leisure travel, having captured a third of global leisure travel spending in 2025, new EIR data from the World Travel & Tourism Council […]
Travellers from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and other visa-exempt countries are facing renewed uncertainty over when they will have to obtain an ETIAS travel […]
A new international rail service between Finland and Sweden saw its inaugural trip on 10 August 2026, an occasion that marked the first train connection between […]
The European Union could extend temporary flexibility measures for its new Entry/Exit System (EES) beyond September 2026, as concerns grow that fully enforcing biometric border checks […]
The European Commission’s decision to sanction Google for failing to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA)’s rules on self-preferencing marks a significant step towards making […]
Global warming driven by carbon emissions has made droughts and wildfire weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain, and doubled the risk in France, […]
Following the border breach in Ceuta on 30 July 2026, Italy has announced to temporary suspend the Schengen free movement regime with Spain. According to the […]
As a new heatwave is expected to strike western Europe, France and Spain continue to combat major wildfires. While the Gironde and Landes wildfires near the […]
Nearly one in five nights spent in tourist accommodation across the European Union is concentrated in just seven regions, highlighting the uneven distribution of tourism as […]
Europeans are being invited to help shape the future look of the euro after the European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled ten shortlisted designs for the first […]
The European Union’s transport sector remains overwhelmingly dependent on oil-derived fuels, even as alternative infrastructure expands rapidly, while tourism has reached record levels with more than […]
Air transport prices across the European Union continue to fluctuate significantly, with fares rising by 3.1% year-on-year in June 2026 after an 8.1% increase in May […]
On 17 July 2026, the European Commission published a document asking the 27 member states and the European Parliament to amend the EU’s emissions trading system. […]