{"id":373736,"date":"2026-03-30T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:22:28","slug":"tourism-industry-calling-for-government-to-drive-business-costs-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373736\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism industry calling for government to drive business costs down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government should prioritise making Ireland&#8217;s tourism industry competitive by keeping business costs down.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the CEO of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itic.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Tourism Industry Confederation<\/a>, Eoghan O&#8217;Mara Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>He says there are early signs that the war in the Middle East is causing a softening in all holiday-maker markets:<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some in the tourism sector in Ireland are hopeful that Ireland will benefit from its reputation as a safe destination.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/kerry-tourism-industry-federation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Tourism Industry Federation<\/a>, Pat O&#8217;Leary also thinks the rising price of flights may encourage domestic tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government should prioritise making Ireland&#8217;s tourism industry competitive by keeping business costs down. That&#8217;s according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,33258],"class_list":["post-373736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tourism-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}