L’Irlanda è diventata troppo costosa per i turisti? Un economista e un dibattito rappresentativo dell’industria turistica – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/08/05/has-ireland-become-too-pricey-for-tourists-an-economist-and-a-tourism-industry-representative-debate/
di WickerMan111
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Whats chart boy got to say now
It’s become too expensive for people living here never mind tourists. The best value they could get would be not to stay in Dublin. Even at that it’s expensive. Be lucky to get a hotel now for under 200 quid. And reducing the VAT rate won’t reduce it either. Just more profit. Instead of bringing the prices down so people will spend more and go away more. But no. The greed will kick in.
Hmm…I said it before, last year, three days in Cork cost me more than six in Madrid, including the flights from and back to Dublin. Just saying……
Cork is a lovely city and people though, so there is that….:-)
Of course.
If you pay big money, you expect lots of entertainment / lots of history or great beach weather etc.
Are you getting that say in Dublin?
It’s too pricey for Irish, nevermind tourists 🫠
Not only pricey, but literally bad value for money. We’re at a point where food/services in NYC are cheaper/same price as in Wexford, but you definitely don’t get the same quality here. You pay 300 Euro per night in Dublin and get a dusty room with no AC and moldy bathroom, pay the same price for half the portion you’d get in NYC, houseshare in Dublin costs more or less the same as in Brooklyn. People I know who came here from the US said the same thing – prices are “okay” (more or less the same as in US), but quality of what you get is poor. There’s a SPA shed in Gorey and they want you to pay 300 Euro per night for the room alone, without any of the SPA services booked in. And 7-10 Euro for a pint in town. 30 Euro for a cauliflower steak somewhere in the middle of nowhere near Kilmore. I don’t see why anyone would pay 60 Euro for two slices of cauliflower 😀
People, The Irish Times in particular, seem to be obsessed with the tourist’s perspective on things. Sure they had a feature on Smyth’s of Haddington Road in Dublin and their headline was: “If we keep knocking down places like Smyth’s, soon there’ll be nothing interesting left for tourists to visit”.
The city and the country needs to be way more focused on the quality of life and services for the people who live here.
I’d happily do more staycations – plenty to see and do on this wonderful island of ours – were it not for the fact that jetting off to Europe is way more affordable ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
The fact you can fly abroad and stay in higher quality hotels for less than staying here says it all.
It’s too pricey to live here ffs
> One of the key responses that is closely monitored by industry leaders is the value-for-money question. The latest available research shows Irish tourism is doing pretty well: 63 per cent of all holidaymakers report Ireland as being “very good” or “good” value, with a further 32 per cent rating us as “fair” value and only 5 per cent rating us as “poor” value.
I bet that Qatari visitors to London would also rate their stay a being “good value” . None of this means that prices aren’t high, it just means that wealthy tourists are willing to put up with it. What this meaningless statistic is ignoring is that the country becomes less affordable for people who don’t have such deep pockets. A side effect of the escalating prices is that it becomes less affordable for the people who deliver services to tourists to live near their places of work.
> US visitors, buoyed by a relatively strong dollar were most positive; cash-strapped British and price-conscious Europeans a little less enthusiastic.
The Dollar exchange rate to Euro has been on the decline for the past six months. Meaning that tourists from the US would have had less buying power. Depending on the whimsical nature of their glorious leader, we may see an even stronger decline of the dollar yet.
Going to Blackpool for 2nights over Halloween,hotel in city center cost me 81bucks for the 2 nights.you get nothing in Ireland for that
Does anyone have a solution?
Nearly €50 for 1 person to camp in Killarney this weekend. This is crazy pricing.
Ireland has become greedy and lazy at the same time. It can not continue in the way it has. Hotels, AirBnB, apartments, and landlords are gouging tourists and residents alike.
The standard of accommodation and service has declined, but the prices have gone up with no particular evidence to support those price rises.
The government is happy to continue to allow this without ant regulation or standards. Ireland is still very much a banana republic open to the highest bidder because of weak and greedy politicians with no moral compass.
A large majority of them are landlords and property owners.
If we didnt have the Americans paying these prices a lot of these businesses would have already folded.
Ridiculously expensive and extremely bad value for money
Whenever I have friends asking to visit I tell them to outside of summer. Renting a car is easily €1000 for a week when out of season it would be €300.
If you have money, great! If you don’t have money, not so great…
we’re irish living abroad, back for a spell. we budgeted based on our last trip back -between inflation and the exchange rate.. everything is 20% more expensive within 2years. now we’re lucky that we have the money to cover overages but it’s still pretty jarring when I see two cups of coffee come out to $8 in my US credit card.
Last night I looked at booking a night away for my granny for her birthday, she’d mentioned Westport, she’d mentioned Dublin, there were a few things she wanted to see and she also mentioned Liverpool to visit my sister.
The hotel prices for Dublin and Westport, both on the same Monday night were in the region of 150-200 euro, Liverpool was 75, the flights were 68.
She’s decided she wants to go to Liverpool.