Summary of ideas submitted in the Tourism category…

• Tourists should pay corkage as opposed to buying wine in restaurants.
• Trim roadsides.
• TV programmes promoting visitor attractions in Ireland.
• Unemployed cleaning up the countryside.
• Upgrade WIT to a University to allow the South East to grow as a region in terms of Entrepreneurship and FDI.
• Use hotel function rooms as day care centres.
• Use canals as a public transport method to see the city.
• Use empty and unoccupied houses as rental accommodation.
• Utilise the tourism potential of our coastal waters with floating restaurants, coastal tours and educational trips.
• Utilising people who are on the dole to restore or simply give a face lift to local tourist/heritage sites, assist tidy towns committees is a cheap and affective way of both making use of peoples skills and providing people with something worthwhile to do while looking for more permanent work.
• Visitor centres should be let out to tender
• We are not at the races with countries like Britain France and Germany who preserve their village and town heritage.
• We have the largest government per head of population - we should reduce the elected representatives.
• We need to make tourists feel welcome.
• We need to provide our own Tourist and International Tourists with offers, offers for single people, couples, families, and elderly people, akin to what they do overseas in better climates.
• Work on the rainy image of Ireland.