Trump’s business tax cuts ‘will boost Irish hotels’

Beneficiaries intend to spend windfall on travel

Gráinne Ross, managing director of the Dylan hotel in Ballsbridge: ‘We’re seen as a safe destination and we’re English-speaking’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

Donald Trump’s tax policies could boost the coffers of high-end Irish hospitality businesses this year, according to one Dublin hotelier.

Gráinne Ross, managing director of the Dylan in Ballsbridge, said high net worth Americans who had benefited from the US president’s tax cuts were earmarking the money they had thereby saved for travel.

“Lower corporate tax rates means they have more money within their businesses, and personally,” said Ross, who met travel advisers ...