Unique US-Irish relationship delivers sustained tourism trade

Joe McNamee hears industry views on how US-Irish tourism figures have rebooted after the global Covid dip

Busy scenes at Terminal 2, Dublin Airport, which serves the USA, among other destinations. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Irish US Tourism Dividend For generation after generation, the US has been the lodestar for Irish emigrants and the Irish diaspora (including descendants of emigrants) is now estimated globally at 70m and that includes 42m Americans claiming Irish ancestry, more than one in five white Americans. 

Joe McNamee looks at how the special US-Irish relationship continues to deliver tourism dividends for both nations. Picture: Denis Minihane