Yet the biggest winner from the Government’s U-turn on Friday is the tourism and hospitality industry. But under the old reopening plan, the season-dependent hospitality sector’s prospects for 2020 were disastrous. The tourism and hospitality sector will now benefit from a dramatic speeding up of its reopening schedule to give operators a chance of salvaging a few scraps from 2020 domestic tourism season. The old reopening plan was like a pincer movement on the hospitality and tourism sector. On the other side, the domestic tourism sector was squeezed down to just a couple of weeks at the end of July and early August, once all the movement restrictions were due to be lifted.

Source: The Irish Times June 06, 2020 06:22 UTC