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Deborah O’Donoghue is a British-Irish writer who has lived in the UK, France and 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 Legend Press in 2019 and comes out in Germany in 2021. Follow Deborah on Twitter and Instagram.

21 September 2023

Belgium could be hit by air traffic control strikes this autumn

Air traffic controller strikes could hit Belgium and affect Europe this autumn. The news comes just as tour operators and some destinations are looking to expand […]
21 September 2023

Tui Group taps into China’s tourism potential with first Chinese hotels

Tui Group hotels are branching into China under a brand-recognition exercise designed to take advantage of China’s “enormous tourism potential” and “attract new guests from Asia […]
21 September 2023

Singing dunes, tiramisu mountains and Genghis Khan’s golden saddle

Singing dunes, tiramisu mountains and Genghis Khan’s golden saddle, sounds like a children fairytale. But it’s not fiction, it’s a day in Kazakhstan’s Altyn-Emel National Park. […]
20 September 2023

Hotels generally beat Airbnb rentals on price by 16%, new study finds

Airbnb rentals are generally more expensive than hotels, according to new consumer research. The study of 300,000 one-bedroom rental listings versus thousands of hotel rooms across […]
20 September 2023

A first peek at ‘Something Beautiful’

Something Beautiful, the festival of art and poetry organised by the artist-poet Mimi Kunz and the curator Lucie Pinier, is coming back to LaVallée in Molenbeek, […]
20 September 2023

Travel Foundation calls on industry leaders to collaborate and take action at scale

With the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Travel Foundation has called on travel and tourism industry leaders to work together and act now in the […]
20 September 2023

Postponing action on climate change is a tragic mistake

The UK Prime Minister is apparently considering weakening some of the government’s key commitments in a major policy shift. He is apparently considering a major change, […]
20 September 2023

Green hydrogen successfully produced from plastic waste using low-emissions strategy

Green hydrogen is touted as a promising alternative to fossil fuels, but the methods used to produce it generate too much carbon dioxide or are extremely […]
20 September 2023

The double anniversary of Belgium’s Africa Museum

The Royal Museum of Central Africa, renamed the Africa Museum, has been standing in Tervuren for over a century. 125 years to be precise. Having started […]
20 September 2023

European Parliament’s game changing pilot project for sustainable aviation fuels

The aviation industry plays a vital role in the global economy connecting people and goods across long distances. However its reliance on fossil fuels has made […]
20 September 2023

Empowering Europe’s small and independent accommodations

Travel is a force for good in the world, and it is also a powerful economic engine. Before the pandemic, WTTC calculated that the tourism sector […]
20 September 2023

Air New Zealand marks anniversary of New York route with love letter to the Big Apple

Air New Zealand has marked the first anniversary of its non-stop long-haul service to New York City, with a “love letter” to the Big Apple. As […]
19 September 2023

UK rail passengers set to be hit by autumn train strikes

Millions of UK rail passengers are about to be hit by more train strikes this autumn in an industrial dispute that has lasted over two years. […]
19 September 2023

Russian observatory and Palestine’s Jericho added to UNESCO World Heritage

A university observatory complex in Russia’s fifth largest city has been added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage. From classical astrology to modern astrophysics To qualify […]
19 September 2023

China invests on geothermal energy to develop clean heat

China will actively expand the use of geothermal energy in a bid to adopt cleaner sources of power for heating. The country will also increase the […]
19 September 2023

Lack of snow forces French ski resort to permanently close

A ski resort in the French Alps has closed its doors permanently after a global warming-induced lack of snow has reduced its ski season to just […]