Dalata, Ireland’s biggest hotel chain, says it is planning a marketing campaign to try to tempt domestic holidaymakers to visit Dublin this summer, as the capital’s hotels look set to underperform occupancy rates elsewhere. “One of the things we have learned about Dublin in this pandemic is to look at the city in a different way. Mr McCann said social distancing rules would not crimp capacity in Dalata hotels, which he said have large public spaces. For the first quarter of 2021, occupancies at our hotels were 14 per cent in Dublin, 16 per cent in regional Ireland and 13 per cent in the UK. Mr Crowley said the development of a handful of its UK hotels would be slowed by delays in developers obtaining financing, but he expects this problem to be solved later in the year.

Source: The Irish Times April 29, 2021 06:45 UTC