Budget marks 'last chance' to save Ireland's tourism industry, group warns

Occupancy rates in hotels are at just 9% next month

ITIC chief executive Eoghan O’Mara Walsh: 'Tourism and hospitality businesses have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic and shutdowns.'
 

This month’s budget marks “the last chance” to save the tourism and hospitality sectors, an industry group has warned.

The Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC) said the Government’s own warnings of 300,000 hospitality-related jobs being in danger due to the Covid crisis doesn’t have to become a reality.