Cork tourism revenues set to top €1bn a year

Cork is primed for a €1bn annual tourism boon in the next three years with almost 1,000 new hotel rooms adding to supply but a shortage will squeeze visitor growth in Kilkenny and Galway.

Those were the major findings of a Fáilte Ireland report on the need for new hotel rooms, which said that as tourist numbers rose more than 20% over the next five years, it would put pressure on current stock levels.