Sir, - Now that tourism is about to overtake agriculture as Ireland's largest industry, are we to be scourged by hoteliers demonstrating outside the Dail, demanding higher headage payments on each tourist? Or will we be forced to squirm with embarrassment as rich hoteliers jet off to Brussels, protesting that they haven't enough to live on?
And what happens if there is a down turn in tourism? Will taxpayers be forced to buy hotel bedrooms into Intervention? Or worse still, will we pay hoteliers even more money to keep their hotels idle? - Yours, etc.,
Fine Terrace,
Baile Atha Cliath 2.