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 taxman is coming for nearly 2,000 Airbnb hosts in Brussels, Belgium, where hundreds of private homeowners who rent out short-term accommodation via online platforms risk […]
Over 10,000 European hotels have now joined a class action lawsuit against the online platform Booking.com, as hotel owners across the continent unite to seek compensation […]
To celebrate the release of the new Smurfs movie by Paramount Animation, Airbnb is giving two families the opportunity to experience Smurf life in a Belgian […]
The Dutch Consumer Competition Claims Foundation (CCC) and the Consumentenbond are accusing one of the world’s largest travel websites of artificially inflating hotel prices since 2013. […]
On Thursday, 19 June, a Spanish court rejected an appeal by Airbnb, thus effectively blocking almost 66,000 holiday home listings considered to be failing to comply […]
Spain’s Ministry for Consumer Rights has spoken out about its legal wrangle with accommodation booking giant, Airbnb, telling the Associated Press (AP) that tourism “must be […]
As part of its ongoing efforts to regulate tourism and protect local communities, Spain is considering introducing a new 21% value-added tax (VAT) on short-term rentals, […]
Airbnb has unveiled a significant redesign of its app, broadening its scope far beyond private home rentals. The update introduces new Airbnb Services, building on the […]
The first of three major live shows of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 kicks off this evening at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, with the semi-finals leading up […]
La Paisible. The Peaceful. The very name of Audrey Hepburn’s former home evokes tranquillity, and its location in the village of Tolochenaz, near Lausanne and Lake Geneva, makes it all the more idyllic. […]
Non-EU house buyers could be banned outright from purchasing property in the Spanish real estate market if new proposals by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez go […]
Spanish politicians have announced plans to charge 100% tax on properties purchased by non-residents from outside the European Union. Since Brexit, that now includes people from […]
Home to stunning beaches, out-of-this-world cuisine, and warm, welcoming people, Trinidad and Tobago is the southernmost island of the Caribbean, located close to Venezuela. The island […]
As Airbnb faces challenges over the effect of short-term rentals on local residential housing markets and overtourism in destinations worldwide, the booking disruptor has signalled it is […]
On November 20th, the European Holiday Home Association (EHHA) submitted an official complaint to the European Commission about the new Catalan short-term rental accommodation rules which, […]