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“We do think that the ‘staycation’ is probably the best hope for the Irish tourism business, and one of the few positives from the Covid situation is that people are discovering our country, but the domestic market is not big enough to sustain the country’s 20,000 tourism and hospitality businesses,” he said.
“We just hope that in the latter half of the year international travel can start to recommence safely, but public health is first and foremost.
“Really the Irish who are holidaying in Ireland will keep the popular spots like coastal destinations busy during the short few weeks of July and August. Irish people don’t holiday in Dublin, so it was like a ghost town last year. And if matches and concerts in the capital are cancelled it compounds the problem because the people that would have travelled from rural areas to them will not be doing so this year.
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