“Ireland Tourism Industry Should Stop Chasing Short-Term Gains”
Such comments have been made by the chief executive of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC), Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.
According to him, the governmental and nationalist temper towards Ireland’s tourism sector and hospitality manufacturing risk going from sympathy to annoyance.
“Blinking — bruised and battered — from the pandemic, the 20,000 businesses wrong in the assemblage had been kept live acknowledgement to Government fiscal assistance and requests from the home market. As a result, Covid-19 had outgo Irish tourism successful excess of €12 cardinal implicit a two-year play arsenic planetary visitors, the mainstay of the industry was prevented from coming to our shores,” Walsh has stressed.
Recently, the chief executive of ITIC has stressed that the tourism sector in the country may plateau next summer after the household savings gathered during the pandemic will have subsided until the following year.
“2022 is a strange and challenging year. There’s pent-up demand, consumer savings, and travel and tourism globally have bounced back – yet the sector is struggling. By 2023, the deferred bookings and savings will have gone – so 2023 will be a much softer year,” he pointed out in this regard.
However, despite such warnings, authorities in Ireland previously announced that the number of international travellers marked a notable increase which mainly resulted from the abolishment of the restrictions imposed by the government in order to stop the further spread of the Coronavirus.
According to the figures provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Ireland has reported a total of 1,587,385 cases of COVID-19 infection. Besides, the same source shows that a total of 7,469 people have died during the same period.
According to the figures provided by WHO, as of June 5, a total of 11,158,919 vaccine doses have been administered in the country.
However, despite such figures, authorities in Ireland previously announced that they lifted all the restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19.
Besides, authorities in Ireland also announced that passengers from other countries are no longer subject to additional requirements upon arrival. They are exempted from the requirement to fill in the Passenger Locator Form (PLF).
