Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I will give Senator Norris four or five minutes. I do not believe the boom will continue. What happened in 2001 in New York and this year in Bali or whatever other calamity may befall us in future, this is not just a blip on a steadily rising curve. It marks a change in the development of world tourism and we must plan for that change rather than hope it will disappear. Tourism will continue to grow but not at the exponential rates that people used to expect. In any case they were unsustainable from an environmental and cultural point of view on a little island like this. People will continue to travel, but they will travel more carefully, more thoughtfully. They will become much more demanding in what they expect. Since travel now has a risk as well as a cost, they will expect it to deliver more than they did in the past.