Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Has the Minister allocated specific resources to attracting tourists from the Chinese market? Perhaps he will enlighten us as to what he has done in that regard. The tourism action plan for the period from 2019 to 2021 does not once mention China or the Chinese market despite the fact that the Chinese are, by some considerable distance, the biggest spending tourists in the world. Chinese tourists make 130 million journeys and spend $277 billion per annum.

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