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.
The large majority of tourist accommodation in Cyprus is operating illegally, according to a new report by the island’s Audit Office, with as few as one-in-10 […]
Airbnb is bringing back its “anti-party” system for the 4th of July holiday weekend, reactivating a set of enforcement and detection tools designed to reduce the […]
Thousands of homes across three of the largest cities in Belgium are no longer available on the regular housing market because they have been turned into […]
Accommodation plays a big part in how travellers experience their holiday. Homestay marketplace Airbnb has published an overview of its most wish-listed listings across the U.S. […]
The Mediterranean coastal destination of Valencia in eastern Spain is set to restrict holiday rental accommodation in a bid to improve the balance of housing offered […]
Center Parcs has broken ground on a new site in Scotland, marking the start of a £450 million (around €518 million) project expected to bring 1,200 […]
A Spanish court has ordered Airbnb to pay a €64 million fine and refused to suspend the sanction. The company continues its legal challenge over allegations […]
As reading and literary tourism reach new heights of popularity, the filming of a bestselling novel about Shakespeare is predicted to drive increased visitor numbers to […]
According to the Spanish Consumer Affairs Ministry, some 65,000 adverts breached consumer protection rules. The fine, which is said to be final, amounts to six times […]
Travellers and holidaymakers expecting to occupy a short-term rental in Milan from January 2026 onwards should verify how they will gain access to the property, after […]
A new study, published in the journal Marketing Science, shows how online safety reviews on Airbnb can influence booking and the different ways these concerns can […]
Owners of self-catering holiday rentals in Wales could get a reprieve from “brutal” tax rules that stakeholders say have been harming the industry, if new proposals […]
The coastal city of Ostend has announced plans to limit Airbnb rentals in certain neighbourhoods, joining a growing list of Belgian cities imposing stricter rules on […]