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Mon 07 Jul 2010Holidaying at home turns into expensive nightmare
Despite its difficulties, the tourist industry has done little to persuade Irish holidaymakers to stay at home, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE
GIVEN THE number of studies commissioned – the latest by the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation – and the kilos of analysis, you would not think that there was any aspect of Irish tourism which lay unreported. But no one has written about last week’s mass movement, which flooded our cities and towns with refugees from the Irish countryside.
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