The Menu has long been a fan of the work of Dr Colin Sage of the School of the Human Environment, in UCC, and also Founder/Chair of the Cork Food Policy Council.

An initiative that brings together farming and tourism was launched in West Cork last week.

An extension of the visitor season and number of boats operating to world heritage site Skellig Michael have been firmly ruled out.

This is the best hotel food I’ve eaten in many a long moon, says Joe McNamee.

Fáilte Ireland is to spend €500,000 over the next four weeks on an advertising campaign designed to attract British tourists to the stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way from Galway to Donegal.

Tourism advocate John G Dwyer says modest investment is needed to counter the imbalance in tourism spending in the wilderness between high-flying Dublin and the western seaboard

Optimism about tourism is its highest in a decade and the number of overseas visitors to Ireland has grown this year.

In the last of our series, Áilin Quinlan visits Glengarriff in West Cork, which has experienced a revival in visitor numbers

Fáilte Ireland is to invest €65m in enhancing its main destination brands — the Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland’s Ancient East, Dublin: A breath of fresh air; and Ireland’s Lakelands — over the next four years as part of a bid to grow overseas visitor numbers.

Councillors in County Cork are demanding Fáilte Ireland reprint a newly distributed brochure on the Wild Atlantic Way because of “glaring omissions” which they claim will hurt the tourism industry in the region.

Taste the Atlantic is a seafood journey that stretches south from Erris in Co Mayo to Connemara and on to Galway Bay.

An “acute” shortage of hotel rooms in Dublin and “modest” international awareness of the Wild Atlantic Way are major threats to the success of Irish tourism this year.

This is the strongest jobs market since 2007. Graduates will reap the rewards, writes JOHN DALY

A network of water trails has been developed off the south coast to boost marine leisure activity.

A €6m pier at Doolin which will end an unacceptable boating practice that put lives at risk was officially opened yesterday.

THERE is a reassuring coincidence in the fact that in the very week that Pope Francis published an encyclical that argued strongly for a new, responsible attitude to environmental protection that a retired parish priest called for the badly eroded Croagh Patrick to be declared off-limits for many activities until a proper conservation plan is implemented.

A strong tourist trade has helped the majority of hotel and guesthouse owners to improved levels of business, a study shows.