Ireland could generate as many as 74,000 tourism jobs by 2020, industry insiders claim. The Irish Hotel Federation (IHF) estimates that Ireland would need around 10 million visitors per year in order to create and sustain such a level of employment in the tourism sector. But is this possible? Last year there were 7 million […]
The Irish tourism industry could create as many as 8,000 jobs in 2014, according to Fáilte Ireland. Confidence in the industry is high given the nationwide success of The Gathering initiative. As a result, some 68 per cent of tourism operators had a positive outlook on the year ahead (compared with just 48 per cent […]