Staggered school holidays would boost ‘staycation market’, tourism taskforce says

  • 📰 IrishTimes
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 41 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 20%
  • Publisher: 98%

United States News News

United States United States Latest News,United States United States Headlines

Move suggested in bid to encourage families to take holidays in Irish hotels

“We’re all aware we’re going to be very dependent on our domestic holiday market, we would look not only to depend on it during the Covid environment, but in the longer term there’s real potential to increase our staycation market and the domestic market here,” she told RTÉ Radio’s Morning“One of the things that we’ve looked at is where, in other countries, they have changed the school holidays, particularly around periods of mid term for instance, where you can spread the school holidays...

“It’s going to be difficult for the hospitality sector to function out of doors during the winter, we all know living with Covid is going to go beyond the winter period and we’re looking into the first six months of next year so we need those businesses to be ready and to have adapted so that they can actually move and work in an environment whereby we’re living with Covid, but also being able to run our businesses.

The task force made a number of recommendations in the recovery plan, aimed at ensuring the survival of tourism businesses and jobs, including:Professional development supports for workers in the sectorFacilitating the resumption of inbound international tourism Increasing competitiveness through a VAT reduction and actions to increase the cost and supply of insurance

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Arrange the school year to facilitate tourism. love the priorities.

Did you tell ASTI this?🤣🤣🤣🤣

Done in France and brings down the cost of holidays for families with kids (while possibly pushing it up for others). Makes a lot of sense

How education is organised should never be about facilitating the business sector.

Would be great if this was the death knell for AIRBNB.

Quite sensible. Is done in France for Autumn and Spring mid-term breaks. Also would make far more sense to bring the summer school holidays forward by a month and make use of better weather and longer evenings

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 3. in US

United States United States Latest News, United States United States Headlines