Irish Tourist Industry Confederation

As spring begins to stretch into early summer, Ireland’s devastated tourism industry is daring to think of recovery. Major attractions are desperate f(...)

Willie Walsh, the former Aer Lingus and International Airlines Group (IAG) chief executive who is now director general of the International Air Transp(...)

It would be an understatement to say it has been a bad week for the travel sector– or at least the part of it which relies on international travel. Ne(...)

Social distancing of one metre rather than two in hotels should be the norm, a member of the Government’s new Tourism Recovery Taskforce has said. E(...)

Confusion reigned over the Government’s budget measures for tourism, with the industry critical of the failure to reinstate its special VAT rate and i(...)

Willie Walsh occasionally recounts how, when he was chief executive of Aer Lingus, he found the notes from the interview he did after applying to be a(...)

A press release landed in media inboxes on Wednesday from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, which is presided over by Minister Shane Ros(...)

Groups representing the tourism and hospitality industries have sharply criticised the Government for raising the sectors’ VAT rate from 9 per cent to(...)

There is clearly tension emerging between the tourism industry and State policy-makers. The Irish Tourist Industry Confederation, the lobby group for (...)

The Irish tourism industry has hit back at Department of Finance officials who recently criticised the sector’s special 9 per cent VAT rate as a “dead(...)