tourism

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Kerri McCrea with two of her elephants, Mae Doom and Too Meh.
The Tyrone woman caring for elephants in rural Thailand

(...) visitors a year, tourism accounts for more than 20 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product and, in(...)

Dublin airport’s Terminal 1 during the lockdown in April. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Covid-19: It's time to test those arriving at our airports

(...) the tourism sector, and the airlines, some hope.

St Patrick’s Day frolics. Irish holidaymakers may not spend like Americans but they are less likely to be shocked by local prices. Photograph: Alan Betson
Irish tourism may gain by looking to its home market

Sentiment is important, possibly nowhere more so than in tourism. One of Ireland’s strongest(...)

Tourism NI chief executive John McGrillen says there has been a reduction of more than 20 per cent in the number of people from the Republic visiting major tourist attractions like the Giant’s Causeway and Titanic Belfast. Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images
Brexit hits tourism numbers in Northern Ireland

Fewer French and German tourists are coming to Northern Ireland because of Brexit, a tourism chief(...)

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe delivered a budget that prompted “little cribbing and moaning . . . more a general air of acceptance. Photograph: Tom Honan
Crises like Brexit jolt Ireland into action, but long-term planning is for the birds

(...) seen. *** – The State agencies that oversee the tourism industry will get an extra €40 million next(...)

Hotels are now charging rates for rooms that are at or close to those prevailing in the final hedonistic days of the Celtic Tiger. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Tourism no longer needs the low VAT rate to prosper

(...) long before the tourism industry is once again making the case for retention of the reduced VAT rate of(...)

An increase in excise duty on diesel was just one of several measures that had been widely expected to feature in Budget 2018 but which ultimately got no mention. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Budget 2018: the missing measures that never made the speech

Minister that any increase in the drink prices would adversely impact the tourism sector. The challenge(...)

Tourists in Dublin at the Molly Malone statue. US visitor numbers to the Republic have risen by more than 50 per cent since 2013. Photograph: Photograph: Alan Betson
Irish tourism industry only a Trump tantrum away from disaster

(...) tourism if Trump were to lead the US into the unthinkable, which, with him in charge, is actually the(...)

Tobacco farmers in Harare protest during an auction on the first day of Zimbabwe’s marketing season earlier this year, as prices for the country’s biggest agricultural export plunged. Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images
There are barriers, but investing in Zimbabwe could pay off long term

(...) provision, construction, tourism and agriculture, although he conceded the latter is currently on hold(...)

Smog around Tiananmen Square, Beijing: pollution is starting to eat into tourism income as the number of visitors to China’s capital declined by a hefty 50 per cent in the first three quarters of the year compared to a year earlier. photograph: kim kyung-hoon/reuters
Asia Briefing: Beijing smog fouls plans for growth in capital’s overseas tourism

(...) turned off by the foul smog in the sky – it’s starting to eat into tourism incomes. The number of(...)