LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Fox News scores own goal misrepresenting the truth about Amsterdam

Monday the 10th of August 2009

Robert Nieuwenhuijs, a Dutch film student has produced on U Tube a video reply to Fox News on their silly misrepresentation of Amsterdam “as a cesspool of corruption – where everything is out of control”.

In telling the truth about Amsterdam he compared statistics on the Netherlands vs the USA which are revealing.

Drug  cannabis use:
USA 40.3% vs The Netherlands 22.6%

Drug related deaths per million of inhabitants:
USA 3.8 vs The Netherlands 2.4

Then of course Fox News probably believes Sadam Hussein still has weapons of mass destruction.