This summer looked a lot better from a distance for tourism businesses in West Cork! Of course, we had anticipated that domestic visitors would take their chance to head overseas after Covid restrictions lifted. But high fuel prices, rising business costs, and car hire hikes have combined with those changes in visitor behaviour to hit […]
Tourism
Communicating the Value of a West Cork Holiday
As Irish holidaymakers start planning trips in Ireland in 2021, the question of value raises its head again. Pól O Conghaile wrote in The Independent this week about the perception that staycations are a rip-off. (The article is definitely worth your time to read!) And social media is swirling again with criticisms that Ireland offers […]
Keeping the Momentum Going: Strategies for Maintaining Tourism in West Cork this Autumn
Find out strategies you can use to keep the momentum going for West Cork tourism businesses this autumn.
West Cork Tourism – Steps Towards Recovery
At what should be the start of West Cork’s tourism season, all is quiet. The lockdown is a vital part of the country’s efforts to manage the COVID-19 public health emergency and key to our economic recovery, but it has brought one of our region’s most important industries to a shuddering halt. Over the last […]