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Summary of ideas submitted in the Tourism category…

• 10% discount on purchases if I held a foreign passport
• A ‘beat the recession’ website
• Able bodied people getting unemployment benefit should get a top-up/bonus type payment for work on local and regional community and tourism improvement schemes
• Abolish airline taxes to encourage tourists to come to Ireland.
• Abolish the €10 travel tax.
• Aggressive investment in tourism.
• Airport taxes should be reduced to minimum levels.
• Allow children in pubs after 9pm.
• Allow farmers/landowners set up caravan sites.
• Allow in-bound passengers over 65 to avail of ‘free’ seats on a stand-by basis on Irish airlines returning to Ireland.
• Amalgamate all county-based tourism bodies into one national body.
• Any people emigrating from Ireland in the short term should be utilised to promote Ireland abroad.
• Apply a hotel city tax.
• Boost tourism and promote Irish-made produce abroad by giving American soldiers who pass through Shannon Airport a complimentary taste of Irish produce. The ‘Taste of Ireland’ pack could include a few Irish made chocolates, a slice of Irish cheese and a mini whiskey.
• Boost tourism by recruiting local volunteers to give guided tours.
• Bord Failte should create a television/web campaign similar to the current ‘Homecoming Scotland’ campaign.
• Brian Cowan should make a televised appeal asking people to agree to holiday at home for three years until the economy improves
• Bring back the Cork-Swansea ferry.
• Build a coastal walking path around Ireland
• Build a national network of cycle paths footpaths.
• Build an American President tourist attraction site in Carlow.
• Cater for the motor traveller.
• Change tax rates.
• Clean up Irish towns.
• Combat litter: every local authority should establish dedicated anti-litter squads.
• Combine all our hauliers together to coordinate their deliveries into Europe. Open up our railways to freight and reduce wear and tear on roads.
• Complete the Dublin-Belfast Cycleway.
• Convert disused railways into cycle paths throughout the countryside.
• Create ‘What it means to be Irish’-themed holidays for people who want to explore their Irish heritage.
• Create a ‘Visit Ireland’ pack for every Irish person going abroad to bring with them, either on holiday or on business.
• Create a ‘Welcome to Ireland’ campaign and engage with our high profile international celebrities to promote the country.
• Create a national heritage park.
• Create a network of cheap, continental-style ‘pension’ accommodation.
• Create a tourist attraction around Saint Valentine’s burial place in Dublin.
• Create a very large, Irish-themed, Euro Disney-style fun park called Tir na nOg