Tourism’s golden eggs at risk

Fretting about the damaging impacts of excessive tourism — also known as over-tourism — is quite needless in Ireland, where the industry works hard to ensure that each year’s overseas arrivals figure is a record — 10m in 2018 — and where the sector generates annually close to €8bn in revenue and keeps 260,000 people in jobs.

Over-tourism is unlikely to be an item on Fáilte Ireland’s agenda any time soon.