Tourists identify range of problems in online survey

OVERCROWDING, noise pollution, opening hours and prices are among the problems identified by tourists in the first online survey of the opinions of visitors to Ireland.

While the audit of online blogs and forums found that nine out of 10 visitors described a positive holiday experience, it also identified several concerns to be examined by tourism chiefs.

Some are outside of the tourism sector’s control such as the weather, driving on the left and the poor condition of roads.