American visitors proving vital in recovery of Irish tourism industry

Accommodation capacity concerns are rising in 2024, and perceptions of ‘no room at the inn’ may deter tourists, warns Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, CEO of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation. He talks to Shauna McHugh

US tourists enjoy iconic villages like Dingle, through to Connemara and all the rugged spots all along the west coast.

While it may have felt like anything but, 2023 was, in theory, a return to normality.

While the scenes of global conflict that unraveled before our eyes over the past year, and devastating environmental disasters such as the Turkey-Syria earthquake, made the world seem cruelly unpredictable, the past twelve months also brought some stability back to our lives in other ways.