5,000 extra hotel beds in Dublin by 2020

There will be 5,000 additional hotel rooms in Dublin by 2020 to meet the needs of the 7.4m tourists who will likely have visited Ireland between 2015 and 2020.

These projections have been made by Fáilte Ireland, who published a report yesterday on accommodation capacity in Dublin for the five years between 2015 and 2020.

Some 5,382 rooms are due to come on-stream between now and 2020, with the current supply-side pressures due to have significantly eased by 2019.