L’Irlanda deve “diversificare” il suo mercato turistico per contrastare il calo dei numeri dei visitatori, afferma il capo del turismo
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-must-diversify-its-tourism-market-to-counter-drop-in-visitor-numbers-says-tourism-chief/a2062707943.html
di RealDealMrSeal
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A whitewater rafting facility in the center of Dublin would be a good start.
You have to be rich to come here as a tourist. Simple as that.
How about focusing on making tourism market affordable again? Why on earth would ppl come here when you can have much more value for same or even much lesser amount in other European countries instead?
Rip-off culture needs to end for tourists to come back, simple as.
Well you took away so much of the accommodation tourists would stay in to use in the homeless/refugee crisis/scam so what did you expect? That has lead directly to a massive increase in hotel prices which means tourists will look elsewhere.
Its not rocket science, and diversifying wont change that.
We could start by investing in some facilities for campervans. The country is fabulous for driving around in a camper exploring. But there are so few places outside of actual campgrounds where there are facilities such as black/grey water emptying or even just places to park up for a night.
Of course if there was it would be likely to be abused by you know who but it’s a real shame.
With the increasingly unbearable summer temperatures in large parts of Europe there are more and more people looking for alternatives to Spain and Italy and Greece in the summer and it would be good if we could capitalize on that.
The cheapest flights take you to the most expensive holiday location in Europe🤣
It feels like Americans are the only group rich enough to actually afford holidays here. I’ve a mortgage and a well paying job so I’m doing better than most. I think about doing staycations every now and again but never follow through. I can’t justify the price.
Incentivise hotels down the country to let tourists stay in them again would be a start
The hotel prices are crazy for very basic stuff in the cities. Premium prices for allegedly 4 star hotels that are decidedly mediocre, but charging rates that make them seem like 5* resorts.
Loads of cheap flights in and out but the accommodation is eye wateringly expensive.
Car hire is also way out of line with most of Europe.
The cost of everything else isn’t actually *that* bad by Northern European standards – eating out etc, but it’s certainly not cheap.
Ireland must not cost the GDP of a small country to take a holiday in to counter drop in visitor numbers
All these hotels in the city centre and not one of them is affordable unless you’re mega rich.
€660 for two nights in Galway in September in an absolutely bog standard hotel I had to book recently. It’s not about diversifying, it’s about value for money.
The amount of times I’ve looked in to going away somewhere for a weekend in Ireland. Then priced it and decided it against it happens quite regularly. All the money I could have been spending on weekends in Ireland is now being spent on weekends in Europe instead.
all the new holiday lets arent for holidays anymore the council are buying them for social housing
By diversify do you mean appeal only to Saudi Princes so they can afford a hotel room?
Ireland must decrease overheads for hospitality businesses and stop inflating accommodation prices by using them as a sticking plaster for failed housing policy.
So much damage has been done by the tourism industry to itself.
We’re an absolute rip off. Our market is catered to the most valuable high income tourists (Americans).
Diversify. Haha great, keep doing that.
I live in Iremand and I can’t even have a holiday here lol. And I would not have “traveling” expenses on top of that!
We would always grab hotel here and there for few days during the year, but now, it’s just waaaaaay to expensive. We even cut down on gigs in Dublin as just one gig becomes a very expensive weekend.
Went for a weekend away recently. Three nights bare minimum guesthouse 400 euros in a town. Rental car, fuel, restaurants and a single tour. The costs are astronomical for a weekend out in country.
Weather was good so that was something.
4 star hotel turin August 16 – 23: 465e
Did the same search for longford : 600-1k for 3 stars.
For Dublin its around 2k unless you want to stay in student accommodation.
I wonder why we don’t get tourists…
Affordability and infrastructure are the answer I think, but we know that’s not going to change
By ‘diversify’ does he mean ‘lower prices so people here actually holiday here’? Outside the box thinking
350 a night for a hotel lol
you did it yourselves get fucked
It’s all greed. We’re divils for the greed.
Also how many tourist attacks do we read and hear of these days? They need to sort out those fucking scumbags.
Irish government being hands off as usual. hope for the best
It’s just too expensive, from Belfast and wanting to get a few nights in Galway or Cork but the price for accommodation is insane. We’ve decided it’s cheaper to go foreign, I only see Americans about the place now.
While I agree, this is not something that can be done easily and certainly don’t think there would be an appetite for such moves in our local authorities and government.
To give the first example I can think of: licensing laws, getting a late licence is very difficult in Ireland. If you want to attract people to have fun in your city they need places to do that. It also doesn’t help when the price of drink is so expensive. The price and availability of hotel rooms is another problem.
Honestly when I think about a whole lot of Irish society would be ok if tourism in Ireland stopped.
I’m a yank with Irish relatives, been over five times, postponing my 6th visit because I’d feel shitty hogging accommodations when they are so scarce for the locals. Haven’t even checked the prices, which would probably be another disincentive.
I was in Disney Hong Kong last month and Dublin make it look cheap. 15euro for a burger drink and chips there, probably cheaper than your local chipper.
Ireland has no budget options, we can only attract the supper rich Asians and middle class British, Europeans and Americans. Plus we have tourists and foreign workers beaten to a pulp regularly
*shows picture of cliffs*
You mean the “rinse rich Americans” strategy isn’t diverse?
‘Diversify’, oh please! How about lowering costs. I would be perfectly happy to staycation but I can’t and I won’t given the cost of EVERYTHING!!!
So things like changing the licensing laws that we’ve been asking for years and are currently sitting to die in the government “must do” list
How about make it cheaper, as it stand “we” can’t afford it at all! During Covid we had tons of domestic tourism
We all loved it, but we have let the companies get away with bloody murder with prices and it has killed interest
Make Ireland Affordable Again.
The ones benefitting will winge. They’re the NIMBY crowd. Sick of being polite to them.
The title of the post should read “Ireland must reduce its prices to counter drop in visitor numbers”
Or give good value for money?
Just clean up Dublin – too many scrotes around the city. Lock them up.