B&B may join home exodus

THE days of the Irish B&B are no more over than the full Irish breakfast has bitten the dust, but the traditional tourism accommodation market is in change.

A number of one-time bed and breakfast establishments have come up for sale in recent years, more aimed in their sales pitch at private family home buyers than working home businesses.

The changes, and acknowledged scaling back of the B&B sector, have to do with changing holiday patterns, competition from the latest crop of budget hotels, the dominance of east coast urban tourism — plus the fact so many Irish people now own holiday homes, at home and abroad.