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.
Saudi Arabia’s drive to transform its formerly oil-dominated economy through tourism and services has just received a massive boost by gaining Chinese “Approved Destination Status” (ADS). […]
The northern Spanish destination of Barcelona is set to ban the sale of tacky tourist souvenirs in a bid to project a better international image of […]
Following in the footsteps of Vigo, in the northern region of Galicia, which introduced fines of up to €750 for “physiological evacuation on the beach or […]
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Germany has launched a new visa scheme aimed at attracting skilled non-EU nationals to live and work in the Federal Republic. The new work visa, called […]
Visit Oslo has just published a rather contradictory yet simultaneously appealing tourism ad. “I wouldn’t come here” is the opening line of the video, narrated by […]
Madrid, Spain, has banned the granting of new licences for tourist flats, following in the footsteps of its Catalan sister, Barcelona, as the whole country battles […]
Israel is introducing a new application procedure for citizens from countries that benefit from visa-free access to the state, in a move that has set the […]
In an unofficial move to protect local clientele from overtourism in Japan, some restaurants and attractions have begun charging tourist customers more than their regulars. The […]
Mount Fuji is undoubtedly an emblem of Japan, attracting tens of thousands of people each year. But now, as tourism continues to re-establish in the post-Covid era, […]