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Tourism numbers up 10 per cent on previous year

Visitor numbers last summer were 10 per cent up on those from the previous year - with tourism now supporting over 4,000 jobs.

Economic Development Minister Laurence Skelly says the "resurge in confidence" in the visitor economy is encouraging:
 
 
He says it has taken three decades for the Island to shake the traditional "bucket and spade" reputation - and there are a number of new developments in the pipeline:
 

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