ITIC’s Tourism Industry Revival Plan – a roadmap to recovery

Today the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC) launches a major new report outlining the immediate and medium term actions needed to rescue and stabilise the Irish tourism industry and allow it to prosper again. The Tourism Industry Revival Plan has been developed after extensive consultation with the leading stakeholders in Irish tourism and sets out […]... Read More

Covid-19: ITIC Bulletin 6: A pandemic in retreat, a Government at standstill

A June bank holiday like no other As we enter the June bank holiday weekend the Irish tourism and hospitality industry would normally be buzzing with activity. This year though is very different with businesses closed, doors shut, and employers and employees extraordinarily worried about the future. As well as being a public health crisis, […]... Read More

A 5 minute chat with ITIC’s CEO

The Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC) held a virtual Council meeting last Friday with 54 industry leaders around the country to discuss Covid-19 and its devastating impact on Irish tourism. Crucially the ITIC Council started planning for recovery and discussed how Ireland’s tourism industry can return to growth. Catch up with ITIC CEO, Eoghan O’Mara […]... Read More

Key Tourism Asks within Programme for Government

Tourism: the economic lifeblood of regional Ireland Ireland’s tourism industry – the country’s largest indigenous industry and biggest regional employer – needs to be front and centre of the new Programme for Government that is being negotiated. Irish tourism employed 265,000 people last year and was worth over €9 billion with over €2 billion returned […]... Read More

Covid-19: ITIC Bulletin 5: Emerging from Irish tourism’s greatest ever challenge

Collaboration and cohesion: how Irish tourism can recover Last week’s announcement that current restrictions on people and businesses will continue until May 5th means that Ireland’s tourism industry will remain in deep cold storage. And even after May 5th, or whatever revised date may be chosen, it is clear that any relaxation of restrictions will […]... Read More

Covid-19 ITIC Bulletin 4: A first step, a cost estimate, an international perspective, and a plan for the future

A welcome initiative but only a first step The Irish Government’s economic response last week to Covid-19 with a €3.7 billion package was a welcome initiative in supporting tourism and hospitality businesses up and down the country who are wrestling with a staggering challenge. The wage subsidy measures, increased unemployment payments and better illness cover […]... Read More

Covid-19 ITIC Bulletin 3: A tourism industry on the brink

An immediate and devastating impact With Irish society and its economy in a state of enforced paralysis it is at times difficult to look forward with any degree of confidence to normality. The phrase “this too shall pass” is a cliché at the best of times and now at the worst of times it seems […]... Read More

Covid-19 Latest Update: urgent and immediate action to save Ireland’s tourism industry

Tourism in business front line of Covid-19 As hotels, attractions, restaurants, venues, pubs and many more hospitality businesses close their doors it is evident to all that Ireland’s tourism industry is in the business front line of the Covid-19 crisis that grips the country. A public health issue first and foremost, Covid-19 also has shattering […]... Read More

Impact of Covid-19 and immediate supports needed for Irish tourism & hospitality industry

An Unprecedented Crisis Ireland’s tourism economy has changed profoundly in the space of only a couple of short weeks. Covid-19, since the first case in Ireland on February 29th, has had – and continues to have – a catastrophic impact on Ireland’s tourism and hospitality industry. Each day seems to bring a new and more […]... Read More

Irish Tourism Postcard – March 2020

Click Here to view our March 2020 Industry Postcard in conjunction with Tourism & Transport Consult International (TTC)... Read More