Tourist chiefs seek spending increase to €450m
Industry confederation to publish manifesto calling for policy reforms
Irish Tourism Industry Confederation
Visits to Irish museums and galleries topped pre-Covid levels in 2023
Guinness Storehouse is the Republic’s most-visited fee-charging attraction, welcoming close to 1.5m people
Measures to improve working conditions leading to crisis in food sector, report finds
Impact ‘could lead’ to loss of 625,000 international visitors and 21,000 tourism jobs
Hospitality sector urges Government response to ‘severe challenges’ amid gloomy outlook
Food sales have fallen by about 9% on average this year, and are expected to drop by as much as 12% over the rest of the year, according to lobbies
Rip-off Ireland? How overseas tourists rate Ireland on value for money
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Tourism sector wants return of lower 9% VAT rate in budget
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Tourism chiefs seek VAT break and end to airport cap
Hospitality businesses under pressure as wage and social insurance costs kick in
Bookings with Aer Lingus have flatlined since pilot vote, say travel agents
Industrial action causing ‘huge stress’ among holidaymakers and within tourism industry
Thousands of rural tourism businesses ‘face closure’ over new short-term letting rules
Tourism chiefs will deliver a letter to Taoiseach Simon Harris before Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting outlining ‘untold damage’
Cap on passenger numbers at Dublin Airport hinders tourism growth, warns tourism group
Planners’ limit a ‘clear and present danger’ to key industry, council warns
Self-catering accommodation squeeze hits tourists and investors, industry warns
Irish Self-Catering Federation wants exemption for existing businesses to continue operating without pending planning permission requirement
How 100,000 Ukrainians have changed Ireland: the impact of migration two years on
Some aspects of having many Ukrainians in Ireland have been judged a great success, while others such as the impact on tourism are not viewed so positively
Short-term letting proposals will squeeze tourist beds, industry chiefs warn
Industry chiefs call for balanced approach on accommodation
Lobby group calls for action on ‘chronic shortage’ of taxis across country
Coalition of hospitality lobby groups and taxi-app companies will hold briefing with TDs and Senators on Wednesday
Goodbody staff leave, tourism warning and exporters brace for new Brexit checks
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Tourism officials to warn Ministers on costs
State must end reliance on hotels for emergency accommodation and lift airport cap, says industry confederation
Revenues jump at Gresham and Castlemartyr hotels
Both outlets make strong recoveries after the pandemic
Why was the tourism sector ignored in the budget?
It is Ireland’s largest indigenous industry and biggest regional employer, but Government support is falling
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Ciarán Hancock and panel tease out the pros and cons of hosting an international tournament
Tourism not ‘priority’ for Government, pulling out of house purchase, and RTÉ redundancies
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Tourism ‘not a priority’ for Government, say industry chiefs
Sector seeks urgent meeting with Catherine Martin to discuss ‘poor’ treatment in recent budget
‘I’m allergic to online shopping - before, during and since the pandemic’
Me& My Money: Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, chief executive, Irish Tourism Industry Confederation
Bertie Ahern blames the Troubles for Ireland’s economic woes in previous decades
Outside investors did not distinguish between North and South, tourism conference heard
Tourism industry unveils plans to grow sector by 50% by the end of the decade
Vision 2030 envisages 350,000 people employed in sector with exchequer revenue increasing to €2.3bn
How clean is your local beach? Many still littered but none are ‘blackspots’, survey finds
Anti-litter business group report notes increase in disposable vapes left on beaches
Irish pub closures accelerating, with average of 152 shutting each year since 2019
‘Significant component of tourism infrastructure’ operating in tough context with 22.5 per cent of pubs closing since 2005, Drinks Industry Group of Ireland reports
Restaurants and cafes should be allowed to retain the 9% special VAT rate
It’s time to decouple accommodation and food services for VAT purposes in the tourism sector
‘Revenge travel’ helped lure investors to check into Dalata. How long will they stay?
Joe Brennan: Hotel group has been the top performing stock so far this year on the Iseq 20
Skellig Michael to be studied for climate change and damage to heritage
Unesco site one of 10 places to be observed for decade to create template for management of sensitive heritage locations
Home Place, Heart Place: Journeys around Ireland review: Travel and vignettes from a lively mind
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Helping the embattled tourism sector is going to require joined-up political thinking
Industry is under severe pressure on multiple fronts, from a threatened VAT increase to housing policies that are leaving far too few beds for tourists
Irish tourism won’t make full recovery until 2026, industry group says
Some 7 million international tourists visited Ireland this year, but ‘heightened uncertainty’ lingers, according to ITIC
Mark Paul: Over-reliance on hotels for refugees is a slow-moving train that will crash in 2023
More than one fifth of all tourist beds are occupied by refugees, and the tourism industry simply can’t afford to let this continue
Tourism industry warns of potential €1bn cost if refugee numbers in hotels and B&Bs rise
Tourism industry will call on the Government to reduce to 12-15% the proportion of tourism accommodation being used to house refugees from Ukraine and elsewhere
Minister wanted tourism’s VAT rate kept at 9% and says decision to raise it will face ‘review’
Tourism industry hopes a change in Taoiseach and Minister for Finance at the end of the year will preface a decision to stop the rate reverting up to 13.5 per cent
Tourism sector cuts recovery projections even if 9% VAT retained
Industry believes return of visitors to pre-pandemic levels will stall over worries of European recession
Refugees leave Gormanston as hotel body warns of ‘challenges’ sourcing additional rooms
Tourism body says Government must release ‘masterplan’ as hotels cannot be ‘sole solution’
Holidaymakers are driving aviation's recovery. But is it a false dawn?
Airlines that survived the pandemic intact now have a greater share of the market
Special 9% VAT rate for hospitality set to be extended
Extension of measure introduced during pandemic expected to cost up to €250m
Irish hotel industry's impressive renaissance complicated by ‘distorted’ market
Agenda: Hospitality sector figures skewed by pent-up demand, inflation and refugees
Climate agenda brings real challenges for international tourism
There is a limit to how green discretionary travel can ever be
AIB has ‘blacklist’ for companies that won’t address climate change
Chief tells tourism conference it will ‘turn away’ firms that don’t try to reduce emissions
Willie Walsh says Government’s handling of aviation in the pandemic ‘very poor’
Former British Airways and Aer Lingus chief criticises politicians
Irish aviation traffic rises 10 per cent in 2021
Passenger numbers still down by more than two-thirds on pre-pandemic levels, says CSO
Tourist numbers could reach 60% of 2019 levels, industry says
Recovery could yet be hampered by war in Ukraine, inflation and staff shortage, says Itic
Donohoe resists post-budget lobbying from tourism sector over 9% VAT
Minister confirms rise to 13.5% next autumn as industry says it will ‘keep fighting’
Failure to extend 9% tourism VAT beyond next August ‘disaster’ say restaurants
Tourism industry welcomes spending package of more than €100m
Radical action needed to accelerate recovery in hospitality
Restaurant and tourism industries seek budget support following crippling restrictions
Restaurants call for Covid wage support extension
Pre-budget submission urges rates waiver and international marketing campaign
Cost of foreign holidays set to rise due to pent-up demand
Prices to increase next spring as tentative recovery in bookings expected
Tourism industry seeks financial package in budget to aid recovery
Industry group and Michael O’Leary call for State action to bring back foreign visitors
Hospitality industry was not always opposed to a vaccine pass
Cantillon: Representatives had signalled support for the concept previously
Ireland must move fast to exploit ‘pent-up demand’ of vaccinated US tourists
Von der Leyen’s suggestion to host US visitors this summer welcomed by tourism industry
Q&A: What are the chances of being able to holiday abroad this summer?
Conor Pope on the prospects for foreign travel and sunshine vacations in 2021
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