Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 November 2003
Report of Tourism Policy Review Group: Statements.
The review group has set ambitious targets for the next ten years – 10 million overseas visitors annually by 2012 and a doubling in revenue from overseas visitors to €6 billion per annum. These are extremely ambitious but achievable since it has been done before. In 1990 we had just over 3 million overseas visitors a year. The decade that followed saw us more than double that number. I am pleased to report that the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation, whose considered views on the report I received recently, agree the targets are "potentially attainable". Their provisos are that the assumptions on which they are based prove accurate and that the central elements across the entire strategy are accepted and implemented successfully.
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