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A Westport Fine Gael councillor has asserted that Mayo is set to have a poor tourist season this summer as a result of a shortage of accommodation due to the housing of Ukrainians, tied in with the fact that, as a county, it has become 'stale' in terms of what it offers visitors.

A business visitor is worth up to three times that of the leisure tourist and meetings tend to take place outside the main summer months, which will lead to an extension of the season for the tourism sector in Galway. This has a very positive effect on the local economy in ensuring that jobs are kept in the west.

With the two-week Easter break now coming to an end, has it been a case of returning to 'business as normal' in Westport hotels - as they welcomed visitors back to the popular holiday destination with open arms following the two long years of covid paralysis? This week the Mayo Advertiser spoke to Irish Hotel Federation (IHF) Chair in Mayo, Westport hotelier Darren Madden, whose hopes for a bumper summer remain somewhat muted, as he describes the mood within the hospitality sector as 'cautiously optimistic' for 2022.

Westport has been selected by Irish Water to pilot the utility’s new Sustainable Water Towns Initiative in partnership with Chambers Ireland.

The Further Education and Training Department in GRETB is currently reviewing the FET work of 2020 and planning its programmes for 2021. The FET Department is conscious of the challenges Covid 19 posed for all of us as a society, both nationally and internationally and is continuing to do so.

A few weeks ago, as a friend of mine was traversing cross country on his way to the south east, he stopped for a coffee at a big service station on one of the motorways. But as they got there, they could see that inside it was overly packed, that while the numbers might not have been in breach of anything, it was still not conducive to good public health were they to go in. His daughter noticed this too and said as much. “Daddy, there are too many people in there, let’s move along and go somewhere else.”