Tourism body raises alarm on Common Travel Area

Brexit puts at risk the Government’s cross-border promotion of tourism, which has been in place as part of the Good Friday agreement, and threatens the Common Travel Area with Britain.

That is according to the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation, which said yesterday that Brexit is the biggest challenge since the onset of the financial crash eight years ago for an industry that employs tens of thousands of people

Any outcome that leads to a hard Brexit when Britain completes its divorce talks with the EU in the coming years will have adverse effects on tourism across Ireland, North and South, ITIC said.