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.
Hawaii is set to introduce a $25 (about €23) “climate fee” on tourists, if proposals by Governor Josh Green go through. Payable on check-in at hotels […]
Following stricter and longer Covid-related travel restrictions, Chinese citizens have taken longer to return to their pre-pandemic travel habits. Destinations once busting with groups of Chinese […]
On Tuesday, 20 February, the EU removed four jurisdictions from its tax haven blacklist: the Bahamas, Belize, Seychelles and Turks and Caicos Islands. The list of […]
Chinese tourists have provided a much-needed boost to tourism figures across Southeast Asia and in other parts of the world, according to various sources scrutinising the […]
In the 2030’s, NASA aims to send the first humans to Mars. A long-awaited event and one that needs preparing. Therefore, the National Aeronautics and Space […]
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has rebranded as simply UN Tourism, to increase the agency’s visibility as well as make its mission clearer. Under […]
The Year of the Dragon started on 10 February, kicking off the 15-day Chinese holiday called Spring Festival. However, with preparations starting ahead of the New […]
In 1952, Swiss geologist Tony Hagen embarked on an incredible journey, covering 18,000 miles of the Himalayan trail on foot. He became the first European to […]
Last year, the United Nations launched Global Tourism Resilience Day, which takes place annually on February 17th – next weekend. Global Tourism Resilience Day was proclaimed […]
The Year of the Dragon started on 10 February with festivities kicking off around the world. In the 8-day Lunar New Year holiday period, Macao expects […]
On 2 February, the European Commission published a draft initiative to increase Schengen visa fees this year by about 12%. If the proposal is approved, the […]