How’s business in Kerry?
When you need to gauge how the tourism business in Ireland is doing you must go to Kerry. It’s not just one of the most beautiful places in Ireland, many believe it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. They’ve been welcoming visitors for centuries, and they do it better than most, which in no small way accounts for the tremendous success which the tourism industry in the area has enjoyed, literally for centuries.
ITIC spoke with a number of operators in the last few days and enquired how the year was going. Click on the images below to hear what they said.
Michael Rosney – Killeen House Hotel
Kate Cooke – QC’s Seafood Restaurant, Cahersiveen
Jerry O’Grady – Killarney Chamber of Tourism & Commerce
Maurice O’Meara – Killarney Golf & Fishing Club
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July 8th 2009
July 8th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Michael Rosney is spot on in his comments regarding political ‘leadership’ vs. the leadership of statesmen. Unfortunately for Ireland it is the short-term political type of ‘leadership’ with no vision beyond 5 year terms that has dominated for far too long.
The greater long term national good always seems to be sacrificed in favour of short-term fixes. This type of reactive governance achieves nothing apart from jumping from one fire fight to another while the real underlying problems are never properly addressed or solved.
The tourism product is undoubtedly better than ever with value for money now widespread, but where’s our national broadband infrastructure to accompany and complement it? You only have to look around any airport anywhere these days to see people travel with their laptops whether they’re on business or pleasure. And why do we have a €10 travel tax when similar initiatives tried in Holland, Spain and Belgium have all been scrapped because they didn’t work?