John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

The PWC report makes clear that six new regional tourism partnerships, RTPs, should be established and that each of the RTPs will include regionally based industry representatives, city and country borough managers, local authority representatives and Fáilte Ireland nominees. The chairperson of each RTP will be nominated from within the partnership and will have relevant commercial experience, and these chairpersons will become members of a regional tourism council, which will also include nominees from ITIC, Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland. There is a great degree of integration.

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