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.
Around 9pm on Tuesday, a hotel in the German city of Kröv, identified by witnesses as the Reichsschenke “Zum Ritter Goetz”, according to Reuters, partially collapsed, […]
A bill has been passed in the Colombian congress to ban the selling of souvenirs portraying the infamous Pablo Escobar. The draft law is an attempt […]
Portugal is in the midst of a tourism boom, with 2023 figures exceeding pre-pandemic levels by 7.7% at 32.5 million visitors. There was also a significant […]
Gondoliers in Venice, Italy have expressed concern about crowding on the historic city’s waterways due to the arrival of a new form of transport: Uber water […]
Florence locals are reacting with outrage following an incident involving an English-speaking tourist and a historical fountain. It is not the first time tourists are being […]
Venice is capping tourist group sizes and placing restrictions on tour guide activity in the latest bid by the world-famous lagoon city to protect its UNESCO […]
The US Department of State has updated its travel advisory for those wanting to travel to Jamaica. After having classified the island as ‘Level 3: Reconsider […]
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) since 6 June. They were only supposed to stay on the station […]
The Chinese are venturing abroad again in numbers, visa application data and demand for Schengen visas reveal. Visa applications for foreign travel by Chinese citizens have […]
Overtourism is often mentioned in the same breath as housing poverty and soaring inflation, but in proof that the phenomenon affects the affluent too, even residents […]
Overtourism in Santorini may have reached a critical turning point on 23 July, when 11,000 cruise passengers disembarked on the Greek island in just one day. […]
A century-old rock pathway clinging to one of the world’s most picturesque coastlines has re-opened after a 12-year closure for repairs. The 900-metre Via dell’Amore, or “Path of […]
Amid protests against mass tourism and measures taken over the past few years against overtourism, the tourism board of the city of Barcelona is rebranding from […]
The riskiest cities in the world for visitors in 2024 have been ranked in a new analysis by Forbes Advisor. The study puts Venezuela’s Caracas, Pakistan’s […]