BBC News NI economics and business editorThe number of tourist visits from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland has tripled in the past decade, new analysis suggests.
Lynne McCabe owns Arthur’s of Royal Hillsborough, a boutique guesthouse and coffee shop, as well as two other guesthouses in Moira and Dromore.“My gut feeling is there are more and more people coming from the south.” There were an average of 120,000 south-to-north trips each quarter before the pandemic but the new average is 200,000.
"There has been a pattern of arriving into Dublin Airport and, we call it 'turning right and coming up the road instead of turning left', but there is still a need there for increasing the promotion of Northern Ireland," Ms Desmond said.