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.
Plans to introduce a new visitor charge at Cologne Cathedral in Germany are splitting opinion between those who say churches should remain non-commercial spaces and that […]
The European Travel Commission (ETC) has published the results of a new study looking into responsible travel behaviour by long-haul travellers visiting Europe. Despite receiving less […]
France is considering charging hikers and climbers for the cost of mountain rescue operations, amid a surge in safety incidents that is straining purse strings. Both […]
Visitors to Barcelona will pay double the overnight tax from April 2026 after measures introduced by Catalonian regional authorities to reduce tourist numbers and raise funds […]
The coastal city of Split, one of Croatia’s major tourist destinations, is looking to introduce restrictions on the sales of alcohol starting from the summer of […]
New rules governing who can climb Mount Everest and how could soon be imposed on expeditions to Earth’s highest peak. Upper House lawmakers in Nepal’s National […]
A new airport planned for Chinchero, a Peruvian city in the Andes that could become a new gateway for Machu Picchu, is dividing opinion among travel […]
Japan’s growing struggle with overtourism has reached a symbolic and controversial milestone, as authorities near Mount Fuji have cancelled a well-known cherry blossom festival after years of mounting […]
Spain beat another tourism record in 2025, welcoming 96.8 million foreign visitors for the year, according to new figures from the National Statistics Institute. With income […]
Intrepid Travel has entered into a five-year partnership with the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC), committing CA$500,000 (€310,000) to integrate Indigenous-led experiences into its Canadian […]
The Baja California Sur state in Mexico has announced it will be increasing its visitor tax in 2026, only six months after its introduction. International travellers […]
The Italian Alpine village of Funes, located close to the Austrian border in South Tyrol, has gained international attention since a post of the picture-perfect town […]
The residents of an idyllic Slovakian village struggling with overtourism are demanding that UNESCO remove their historic hamlet from its World Heritage list to reduce the […]
The autonomous Portuguese region of Madeira has become the latest destination to bring in new restrictions on hiking trail access, in a bid to promote sustainability […]