{"id":52355,"date":"2025-09-30T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/52355\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:36:10","slug":"irish-hotels-federation-expresses-concerns-about-cso-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/52355\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Hotels Federation Expresses Concerns About CSO Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalityireland.com\/tag\/irish-hotels-federation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Hotels Federation (IHF)<\/a> has expressed &#8216;serious concerns&#8217; about the ongoing drop in tourism expenditure by overseas visitors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), there has been a 9% drop in expenditure by overseas visitors in August compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>The association warned this week that the decline is part of a broader trend, with overseas expenditure down over 13% year to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite hopes for a reversal in this trend during the peak summer months, the situation has continued to deteriorate,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalityireland.com\/tag\/paul-gallagher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gallagher<\/a>, IHF chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have continued to see a softening in revenue year on year. This is part of a worrying decline in wider visitor spend throughout our tourism industry, as indicated by recent CSO figures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) is the national organisation of the hotel and guesthouse sector in Ireland. It represents over 900 hotels and guesthouses nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTourism businesses the length and breadth of the country now find themselves operating under an increasingly challenging environment while struggling to deal with unsustainable increases in business costs,&#8221;\u00a0said Paul Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now essential that the Government takes decisive action to put Irish tourism and hospitality on a more stable footing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) has expressed &#8216;serious concerns&#8217; about the ongoing drop in tourism expenditure by overseas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,37728,43],"class_list":["post-52355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-hotels-federation","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355","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=52355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}