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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Rents continue to fall

Tuesday the 16th of December 2008

The IMF has once again revised their projections for world output growth downwards to 3.7% in 2008 and 2.2% in 2009. The slowdown is most pronounced in advanced economies where output is projected to shrink by 0.3% in 2009.
In Ireland commercial rents fell 10.85% during 2008.
The retail rental index shows a drop of 11.51% in 2008. The greatest fall occurred on Grafton Street, which experienced a 22.73% drop in 2008 as a correction from unsustainably high rental levels took place.
The latest CSO figures for industrial production indicate a fall of 10.3% in the year to October 2008.