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GOVERNMENT should identify “clear criteria” to determine when Irish tourism can reopen in the context of the revised Living with Covid Plan, according to the first report by Ireland s Tourism Recovery Oversight Group.
With tourism in “survival mode”, businesses and jobs in tourism should also be kept in existence until conditions allow for sustainable recovery, the State tourism group added.
It said the Employee Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) should be maintained in its current form for all businesses until the end of June, and the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) until the end of 2021.
Other recommended measures include extending the sector s 9pc VAT rate to 2025, and the Local Authority Rates Waiver until the end of 2021 for tourism and hospitality businesses.
A body tasked with overseeing the tourism industry’s recovery says it’s acutely aware of the damage done to the sector in Kerry. The Recovery Oversight Group, which gave its first report yesterday, was appointed in December to oversee the implementation of the Tourism Recovery Plan and monitor the sector’s recovery. Chair of the group Nóirín […]