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.
Official figures show Belgium’s Flanders and Wallonia regions have recovered from Covid-19’s tourism crisis, but the Belgian capital Brussels is still lagging behind them. Brussels is […]
The Yungang Grottoes are a UNESCO world heritage site in Datong, Shanxi Province. In 2023, a record 3 million visitors descended on the area which boasts […]
Greece needs to make radical changes if it is to remain popular with tourists, the country’s own ombudsman has warned. Incoming visitors to the southeast European […]
Portugal’s tourism authorities are setting their sights on China, with a new target to welcome half a million Chinese visitors and a million overnight stays per […]
Saudi Arabia has reached a tourism first, welcoming more tourist arrivals than ever before in 2023, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council’s (WTTC). The […]
The world’s tourism sector reached an estimated $3.3 trillion, equivalent to 3% of global GDP in 2023, according to United Nations figures for the year, and […]
Another Japanese town is taking action to prevent tourists from causing problems while trying to photograph views of nearby Mount Fuji. Last month, Fujikawaguchiko, in the […]
It is hardly surprising that Shibuya is busy. Described by Tripadvisor as “the social hub of one of the world’s largest metropolisis”, it is a throbbing […]
Following a 50 million euro pioneering project by Aria Hotels, tourists will soon have the possibility to hop between different Greek islands with the help of electric […]
The first crewed mission aboard a Boeing made space capsule – the Starliner – has just reached the International Space Station (ISS), preparing for docking, after […]
Thai authorities have eased visa requirements for a range of arrivals to the country in an ongoing bid to attract more tourists and remote workers. Brought […]
Minutes after midnight, on 6 June 1944, around 1,200 of Allied soldiers parachuted along the cost of Normandy in Operation Overlord, or, as it is more […]
Inbound tourism from Southeast Asia to China in 2024 is now beating pre-pandemic figures, booking platform Klook Travel Technology has said, and overall tourist numbers could […]
Ticket prices for world-famous French landmark, the Eiffel Tower, are set to rise by 20% in mid-June, ahead of the Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games. The […]