Liners to generate €50m for Dublin’s economy next year

THE cruise liner industry is expected to generate up to €50 million for the Dublin economy next year.

The Dublin Port Company has already lined up 80 liners — carrying a combined 80,000 passengers — to visit the capital in 2010 and this is expected to bring in revenues of anywhere between €35m and €50m to the local economy.

Enda Connellan, chief executive of the Dublin Port Company, said that despite the economic downturn, the port should see another busy cruise line season next year.