Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Impact of Covid-19 on the Tourism Sector: Discussion

Mr. Paul Kelly:

I will be very brief. We are continuing to work on research and scoping around the Wild Atlantic Way coastal walking route. That was another one of those immense ideas when we researched different product ideas that could drive much incremental business. We are continuing to do the scoping work on that. We were delighted to see the Carlingford to Cobh route in the programme for Government and we are beginning to scope out the thinking on what that might look like but that is at the very early stages. The one thing I can say is that, as Mr Gibbons has stated, the visitor experience does not stop at the Border and I had one conversation with my colleague, John McGrillen of Tourism Northern Ireland, about what might happen if we had that route and how that might go up and around places like the Giant’s Causeway etc. It is an excellent initiative and we will be working on it but we are in the very early stages of looking at what kind of shape it might take and are trying to be as creative as possible in looking at different alternatives there. It is also important to think of sustainability within that.

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