Il turismo irlandese è diminuito del 30-40% negli ultimi 5 anni
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Il turismo irlandese è diminuito del 30-40% negli ultimi 5 anni
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That key colour situation is a fucking tragedy
Assumed it would be u/NanorH posting this.
It’s just too expensive to be a tourist here. Not to mention extremely limited tourist facilities such as an easily accessible airport, filthy streets, non-existent late night entertainment etc not to mention so much of our tourist accomodation being taken over by the government for IPAS accommodation and the decline of tourist hostels (not a dig at migrants, 100% blame on the government – particularly the Green Party in the last term). We need to rethink our tourist sector
Rip off republic isn’t so appealing to people, I work in hospitality, a lot of people tell me they won’t return because it’s expensive, dirty, unsafe, it’s just a fucking kip gotten a d a cash grab. Very short sighted policy and considering hospitality is the biggest employer here kind of fucking dumb to let it die on the vine.
Too expensive. Crap transport. Very little to do for 9 months of the year other than drinking.
Sure it’s cheaper to go abroad for a long weekend than to go two hours up the road.
A weekend in Dublin for a family of 4 cost us about €800 with activities and food. We did a long weekend in Barcelona for less, the weather was better and the cities are no comparison.
Ireland isn’t good value for money. Our public transport system is unreliable and poor in terms of availability. Taxis are a complete rip-off. Eating out is very expensive.
We market ourselves well, but we don’t really deliver in terms of value for money.
Hotel business is still booming though. I heard one client spent €1 billion on hotels last year!
As people are saying, the cost is an issue. But we’ve also got a not insignificant number of hotel rooms filled with homeless and migrants.
Have you seen the cost of car rental! It’s madness.
Tried to book a hotel for me my wife and our 16 year old for a little get away , nothing super fancy , 4stars down the country for some hiking and nature .
1600€ for 3 days 🤣 ! And then were asking why is the tourism slow ? And that was the average price for anything decent we tried plus minus this price.
Not one bit surprising.
Hotels are absolutely robbing people in Ireland and one night away here would cost you more than a full weekend (even a week in some cases) abroad.
It’s ***WAY*** too expensive and is getting a reputation for just being bad value.
For a while, Dublin was pulling in a lot of tourism, especially short trips / city breaks – but if you look at any reviews of the place, tourists, especially from the UK and EU seem to feel utterly rinsed by the prices. Then it’s also getting seen increasingly as run down / grotty and a bit too edgy for comfort – comes up quite a lot in reviews and we’re doing very little to counter that.
In a lot of cases those reviews are coming from tourists who’ve booked hotels that end up being in very rough areas of the North Inner City, which then puts them straight into conflict with extreme edginess at a level that nobody really wants to experience.
I’m seeing reviews of Cork and Galway that are both saying they’re tired / rundown etc too. They’re not all as positive as some of our own hype.
Are we even looking at the reviews or are we just dismissing them and saying we’re great craic ?
If we’re serious about tourism (and I don’t think we are tbh – focus is very much elsewhere and there’s been a growing assumption that it doesn’t matter all that much) more effort needs to go into drastically sprucing up the cities. They’re the gateways to everything else and a lot of people’s first and sometimes only impression of Ireland.
We also need to massively up our game in terms of what we’re actually offering, not just for tourism but for ourselves too. The cities need to be places people actually want to visit and spend time in. That’s increasingly not the case, especially post COVID.
North American tourism into Ireland tends to be very much more rurally focused, and centric around the West Coast/SW etc and doesn’t really get the same exposure to that.
We’re great at the old living in total denial though at times – especially when it comes to issues in central Dublin and it’s genuinely becoming a drag on our reputation as a destination.
Fuck the hotels. They deserve everything they get.
Hotel prices are ridiculous here… for the same price of 1 hotel night i got 4 in the Netherlands
It’s actually cheaper to visit another country, including flights and hotel, than it is to holiday in Ireland.
That’s outside the fact, so many have been gouging on prices and the ones who haven’t been gouging just swapped over to be used for IPAS accommodation.
Way too expensive, lack of hotel availability etc.
Not suprised
Oooh it’s almost as if you treat cities like shit and rip ppl off they don’t like it… just groundbreaking
Why spend a fortune on a nights stay in Galway when I can get a Ryanair flight for €69 euros return to Malaga? Managed to grab a cheap ticket last week, the day before in fact.
Price of renting a car is outrageous and a hotel is cheaper in most other cities in Europe.
There’s no hotels to stay In
No suprise..Place is a rip off. Public transport is terrible. Nothing much to do other than go to the pub drink Guinness and listen to Trad. All shamrocks and leprechauns. Load of crap. The wild Atlantic way was a brilliant initiative but its just too damd expensive to travel the length of it.
I”m Irish. I can’t afford to stay in dublin for a couple of nights but I could afford a week or 10 days somewhere sunny abroad. Why in the name of god would foreigners ever come here.
With the price of hotels it’s really no wonder. Government policies are slowly smothering small business and tourism in this country
For a hotel one night in Dublin, you’d get 2-3 nights, flights and accommodation somewhere in Europe
Irish government haven’t gotten two cocky and smug the last few years and soon the rug will pulled from under all of us and we will pay the price once again
I hope they get everything they deserve.
I’m an immigrant. My family and I have been living here for almost 6 years and I still don’t know anything about the island. Everything is too expensive and there is not much to do other than going to a pub and drinking.
I would love to go around the island to visit the tourist places before going abroad, but it is cheaper (and better) to travel to Portugal or Spain, for example, than going to Kerry with my family of 4 people. And there are more things to do than here, where everything closes at 18:00, except pubs.
It is not only a matter of price. Price is the main reason, but if the experience is worth it the price could be accepted.
I’d imagine many are put off by the extortionate prices of hotels. There is also a shortage of hotels since many have opted to become IPAS or homeless accommodation
Shortage of hotels and what remains is insanely over priced.
Used to be a tourist, now a resident. It’s the cost these days that’s doing it. I don’t know a single person who’s visited who didn’t love the experience, but it’s basically unaffordable now. Used to be super reasonable to rent a car and stay at B&Bs, and the price of both has skyrocketed while budget options that exist other places (cheap and regular public transit, hostels, campervans) are extremely limited. You can go almost anywhere else in Europe for cheaper.
I did consulting for Tourism Ireland for 6 months. Discovered the North American visitor spends WAY MORE per person than visitors from UMK. So I suggested, “Why not slow down on UK marketing and push NA visitors?”
“What? Are you crazy? Most visitors are from the UK!!!”
They just don’t get it.
Oh, and BTW, if my neighbours ‘s kid comes to visit his parents for the weekend, he’s counted as a tourist. Really.
So do we REALLY know Tourism numbers at all??
Susan B
Waterville, Kerry.
The last good summer we had about 5 years ago. It’s also cheaper for us to go abroad for holidays instead of spending 5x here.
Had my wedding in Ireland last year, I’m Irish, she is Canadian. Half the wedding was Canadian. Most stayed at most 3 or 4 days, then headed off into Europe. The reason? Cost. And I don’t blame them. They loved coming and the country but the cost was insane.
Serious issue on our hands IMO between the instability of the tech industry and tourism nose diving, it’s not like we have a swathe of other economic activity to make up for it.
I remember last year I had a friend I played games with in America let me know he and his partner were planning on coming to Ireland later on in the year.
A few months later I followed up with him to see what their plans were and see if we could meet. He told me that they found it too expensive and they were going to go somewhere else instead.
They went to Dubai….
The fact that Dubai was seen to be better value for money than Ireland is mad to think about.
25 quid fish and chips along the Atlantic way will do that
Years and years ago, we used to go down south to Kerry or Mayo for a family holiday every year, always self catering, because we never had a budget for foreign holidays and we loved the coast here.
Used to do two weeks, when my youngest was about 2, then it was one week, as the prices began to climb. The last time we were able to book a house for a week (and we always booked the cheapest because that’s where our budget was at) was maybe 8 years ago. That was our last holiday ever.
Youngest is 18 now and I wouldn’t even consider going down South if I was in a position to travel again.
A lot of holiday homes and air bnb justify the cost because maybe 2k is alright split 6 different ways if all adults are going, but families with more than 2 kids especially are just priced out of the market. The greed killed it for us.
COVID, costs, refugee/IPAS. Not hard to figure out, many hoteliers are happy to take a cheque from the state. Easy number for them now but of course it’s killing the tourist infrastructure so when this era passes there may be no market for those hotels.
How many hotel rooms have been taken out for the €1bn a year boondoggle of asylum? Is it any wonder numbers are down? The cost of a hotel room is scandalous. But hoteliers aren’t suffering because taxpayers are giving them a solid income… it’s not right, and it’s a dangerous political wedge for bad actors to exploit.
Huh – sad to hear. We’ve travelled to Ireland last year for two weeks and found it charming with nothing at all to complain.
It’s cheaper to fly and stay nearly anywhere in Europe besides Switzerland than it is to stay anywhere in Ireland.
Which kinda sucks cause I have fond memories of places around Ireland as a child that I’d like to visit again. It’s just not worth 200 quid a night in some shitty Hotel that hasn’t been updated in 20 years.
It also won’t improve because the hotels will just cry to the government and get a bail out or tax reduction instead of dropping prices.
Let the tourism industry die if they want to carry on this shite.