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.
The island of Lanzarote in the Spanish Canaries has declared itself “tourist-saturated” and wants fewer visits from British holidaymakers. The volcanic island off North Africa’s northwest […]
Foreign tourists brought in a record of 58 billion euros to France in 2022, according to figures released by the French Tourism Development Agency, Atout France. […]
With most countries dropping Covid-19 travel restrictions last year, demand for international travel started to pick up again. The sudden surge left most airlines and airports, that […]
Despite the war in Ukraine and looming economic crisis, rich Russians returned “to international travel with a vengeance post-pandemic”, revealed an analysis from ForwardKeys. Over the […]
Asian countries were the last in the world to scrap Covid-19 related travel restrictions, thus lagging behind with the recovery of its travel and tourism industry, […]
Travel and tourism industry voices are calling for a global effort to make climate-ready travel a reality, as the recently published Envisioning Tourism in 2030 & […]
Doha has been named the Arab Tourism Capital 2023 by the Arab Tourism Organization. The news was announced at a commemoration ceremony on February 25, on […]
Beijing will overtake Paris to become the world’s largest travel and tourism city destination within the next decade, according to research by the World Travel & […]
Researchers have found a huge gender imbalance across the leisure sector, with less than 10% of CEO level positions held by women, according to a report […]
The CzechTourism has rebranded from Visit Czech Republic to Visit Czechia, part of the country’s move to only keep the longer name in official documents and […]
Machu Picchu, the famous Inca citadel in Peru, has finally reopened to visitors on February 15, 2023, following a two-month closure due to political protests. This […]
The outlook for travel to Europe is promising, despite global pressures such as high inflation, the war in Ukraine and consequent energy crisis and the looming […]
The name is pretty self-explanatory, birth tourism is when expecting mothers travel to another country to give birth. There are multiple reason parents may choose to […]
Macao and Hong Kong are working together to deepen their tourism cooperation. The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) invited over 100 Hong Kong tourism industry leaders […]