Tourism poised for more growth: Minister

The domestic tourism market is poised for further growth in 2005, according to the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue, who today launched Fáilte Ireland’s €3m home market campaign.

Latest CSO figures for the first nine months of 2004 indicate that the domestic market grew by 6% to 2.5 million trips with spend increasing by 9% to €516m by the end of September last.