Il numero di turisti che visitano l’Irlanda a gennaio diminuisce del 25% rispetto allo scorso anno
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/25-drop-of-tourists-coming-to-ireland-in-january-cso-1734715.html
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Il numero di turisti che visitano l’Irlanda a gennaio diminuisce del 25% rispetto allo scorso anno
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/25-drop-of-tourists-coming-to-ireland-in-january-cso-1734715.html
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About €60m in lost tourist revenue in one month? The tourism industry lost the run of themselves post-Covid and now they’re paying the price.
Zero sympathy for the industry with their ridiculous prices.
Not really surprised, the cost of hotels alone would put you off.
Great, so the industry can lower their prices to be more competitive, right? right?
When will the wakeup call happen that prices are too high now
I’m surprised it was only 25% and not more tbh. Irish prices when it comes to hospitality and food are off their rocker and the only thing consistent among all tourists is that they’re getting shafted. Greed must have it’s limits.
That said, government policy of continuously making life in this country more and more unaffordable is not helping one bit either.
My family used to come from the Netherlands, England and Scotland every year and my family from the US every 2/3 years. They haven’t come this past 4 years because it’s now too expensive. We unfortunately can’t host everyone so they depended on Hotels and car hire which have exploded in price. Tourism has lost the run of itself.
It’s interesting to see in the release the breakdown by accommodation type. The bulk of the decrease when you compare to the trend from both 2023 and 2024 actually seems to be in people coming home to stay with family and friends. There’s a small drop off in terms of the hotel industry, but nowhere near of the same magnitude.
When we hear tourists we think “yanks coming to stay in hotels”, but the way this survey is done the biggest category is Irish people coming home to visit.
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When you try Google cost of hotels or Airbnbs you see why. Plus the cost of restaurants which is mediocre for the price you’re paying. For the same price in Europe you’re getting a top class meal with all the trimmings.
Free market at work. Watch tourist numbers continue to crater and the hotels start whining more VAT cuts.
I predict that the hoteliers’ association will offer it’s usual solution of no-strings-attached subsidies and tax rate reductions
We’re one of the most expensive places in Europe to holiday. It was literally cheaper for me recently to go to Edinburgh for a weekend with flights and hotel then it was to drive to Killarney and stay the weekend in a hotel. Serves them right for gouging people.
The occupancy rates of the hotels shows how we’re struggling hard from supply & demand POV. We need to get building more hotels
They were on the radio blaming it all on the minimum wage increase yesterday. It’s the hospitality workers on the lowest legal income that are sinking the industry. Lord above
Went to look at two nights away for a large family get together. Was cheaper to go abroad, so we did.
I was away for work recently in the south of Spain (tough life I know.) it had been 9 years since I was last in Spain. While I could see the prices had naturally increased, It was still offering great value for money in the tourist areas.
Hotel rooms were under 100 euro, per night. A main course was €13-€15 in a restaurant, beer €3-€4 a bottle. I know the costs are way lower, particularly the staff costs, but you can see why in January people would choose Spain over Ireland.
but, but but, the VAT rate is too high and we need to reduce it before we kill hotels and restaurants and the service industry, right?
Since the start of this year. We don’t eat out anymore. We don’t get takeaway anymore. And we don’t go away for the odd weekend like we used to anymore.
Really don’t see how the high prices aren’t effecting tourists even more so than they are Irish people, so they are just going on their holidays somewhere cheaper.
If you were going for a 1 week holiday and your hotel stay is coming up at thousands of euro even for a shit hotel off season, in Ireland, and you put in another destination, you are immediately saving thousands.
Hospitality is simultaneously unsustainably expensive and also an almost impossible way to earn a decent living as a chef/restaurant owner , or regular staff .
During the post recession years there were loads of people passionate about food & coffee opening up their own places but you just don’t see it happening as frequently anymore.
Everything is out of balance
Not surprised Ireland prices are a joke and us Irish people are doing nothing about it! We should be standing up for our selves instead of letting the gov walk all over us just like the English used to!
Hotels are still full…
Tbf what would you be doing visiting Ireland in January.
Stayed in a hotel mid year for a gig. €270 for one night scandalous
Woooow weird… it’s almost as if you rip people off replace authentic places with hotels and not really give a fuck about improving cities then tourists won’t wanna come back… well I’m shockedx
I am glad tourists have opened their eyes and decide not to get ripped off anymore. Go somewhere else!
I’m Irish living abroad. Don’t have much family or friends I can stay with so it’s difficult to visit. If the hotels were reasonable I’d be home 3/4 times a year. I only manage it once a year now and can’t afford to stay more than a few days. Lose-lose for me and tourism.
The largest group of holiday makers who come here are from Great Britain. So it’s hardly surprising to see figures down for January when several days of the month, mostly over a weekend, was hit by storm Éowyn.
I’m not saying it’s the only reason but caution needs to be applied when selecting data for a single month. It’s too short of a range to accurately judge or even come to conclusions others are making here in the comments.
There was a thread by @care2much18 on twitter yesterday, debunking that numbers are down by 39% since 2019 stat commonly touted, saying tourism numbers are up generally it’s just CSO changed the way things are counted last year.
Just anecdotally I notice a ton more American tourists in my local pubs in the past 12 months whereas in the 10’s you’d rarely see them.
I’ve never known of a government that willfully destroyed their countries own tourism industry as much as this one. What an unmitigated disaster and absolutely no consequences for them
>52.3 per cent of people who came to Ireland in January were visiting friends and family.
I do wonder how much of this drop off is a hangover from the post covid boom. So you had people who couldn’t come home or travel really for 2 or 3 years. And they all came home in 2023/2024 to visit.
I imagine that the refugee and homeless accommodation is more lucrative for most hoteliers. So they won’t care about the damage to the other industries.
I used to go to a LOT of live gigs in Dublin. With the inflation of ticket prices, combined with disgusting hotel room prices on the night of gigs, I can’t do it anymore. Sad really, I loved it. Priced out in my own country, nevermind tourists coming here!