Ryanair’s interim statistics, released on August 23, shows that the number of passengers flying to and from Dublin Airport has fallen from 2.15m per year as at July 2008, to 1.9m for the year up to July 2009 – a fall in 10%. Ryanair has accredited this to the Irish government’s tourist tax, which it vehemently argues is detrimental to government revenues as a ‘tax on tourism’.
Ryanair’s Head of Communications, Stephen McNamara commented:
“Ryanair’s July traffic grew by 19% or one million passengers while traffic at Dublin Airport collapsed by 10%, a loss of 215,000 passengers.”
“The Irish Government should follow the example of the Belgian, Dutch, Greek and Spanish governments and stop taxing tourists and start welcoming them. Ryanair has already announced the removal of two more aircraft from Dublin and Shannon this winter and Irish traffic, tourism and job losses will continue to collapse if the Government’s EUR10 tourist tax is not axed.”
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