{"id":411507,"date":"2026-04-22T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:33:08","slug":"rising-energy-costs-casting-doubt-over-hospitality-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411507\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Energy costs casting doubt over Hospitality sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rising energy costs and global instability are casting a long shadow over Europe\u2019s hospitality sector.<\/p>\n<p>Industry leaders from across the EU are meeting in Cork today \u2013 where they\u2019re warning the challenges facing tourism have reached a tipping point.<\/p>\n<p>With fuel prices surging and tensions in the Middle East disrupting travel and supply chains, businesses say they are under unprecedented strain.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Gallagher, Chief Executive of the Irish Hotels Federation, says more than 10 million livelihoods across Europe now hang in the balance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1gallagher.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1gallagher.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising energy costs and global instability are casting a long shadow over Europe\u2019s hospitality sector. Industry leaders from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-411507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411507","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=411507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}