Irish households should be given staycation vouchers of "a significant monetary value" to help reboot tourism, the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation (ITIC) has said. Staycation vouchers would be a stimulus measure to kick-start home holidays once safe to do so, according to Eoghan O'Mara Walsh, CEO of ITIC. They would be redeemable "against a regulated Irish tourism product such as a hotel, restaurant or B&B". "To date, tourism hasn't been treated as an economic ministry by the Government of the day," O'Mara Walsh says. The DTTAS has yet to publish a central plan for the reopening of tourism in Ireland, or sector-specific supports, but says a "tourism recovery taskforce" will soon be established.

Source: Irish Independent May 01, 2020 10:41 UTC