Alternative tourism needed, says hotels president

The president of the Irish Hotels’ Federation, Michael Vaughan, said yesterday there had been a market failure in tourism in producing sufficient alternative tourism product from counties Cork to Donegal.

Mr Vaughan said that there was not enough tourism product in the west to give tourists valid reasons to stay for longperiods.

Mr Vaughan said that tourism in the west faced a separate challenge of a new dynamic in tourism, where tourists are taking day trips out of Dublin on the motorway system.