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.
Tourists holidaying in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia will pay more taxes for their stay by the end of 2025, as a result of new government […]
Barcelona has launched a groundbreaking power generation system that captures energy from train braking to power the metro network, its stations, and nearby electric vehicle (EV) […]
New group tour rules proposed by authorities in Palma, Mallorca could push ticket prices up and violate guides’ privacy, according to agencies and operators on the […]
With 800,000 Ryanair seats to Spanish destinations in jeopardy, the war-of-words between the so-called budget airline and Spain’s airport authority, Aena, continues. The authority has accused […]
Over the past few years, cities across Spain have been taking measures aimed at limiting the number of tourists at the country’s hotspots and thus tackling […]
Spain recorded 94 million foreign visitors during 2024, a figure that beats all previous annual arrivals data and is only six million fewer than the most-visited […]
Non-EU house buyers could be banned outright from purchasing property in the Spanish real estate market if new proposals by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez go […]
Irish airline Ryanair has announced it will drop flights from seven Spanish airports in summer 2025, blaming what it says are overly high aviation levies applied […]
Spanish politicians have announced plans to charge 100% tax on properties purchased by non-residents from outside the European Union. Since Brexit, that now includes people from […]
Tourism stakeholders on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca have backed calls to take the national government to court over a new travel registration system they […]
Tenerife’s beaches are no stranger to night time activity, but overnight on Thursday 5 December 2024, vandals daubed over 200 sunbeds on the winter sun island with anti-tourism […]
Located at the heart of the Basque Country, the Spanish city of Bilbao was long known for its commercial and industrial activities. Since the opening of […]
Spain is introducing new legal requirements for tourist arrivals, in a bid to improve security but is facing backlash from consumer protection groups who say the […]
The Spanish Ministry of Consumer Rights has fined 5 low-cost airlines operating in the country, for a total of €179 million, almost €30 million over an […]
On November 20th, the European Holiday Home Association (EHHA) submitted an official complaint to the European Commission about the new Catalan short-term rental accommodation rules which, […]
Valencia was hit by heavy rainfall and flush floods last week, leading to advisories requesting travellers to exercise caution before going to the region and warning […]