Normally at this time of year, hundreds of coaches would travel some of Ireland's most famous routes like the Wild Atlantic Way or the Beara Peninsula or the Ring of Kerry.
However, international tourism is still at a standstill, and the domestic market accounts for a fraction of the €400m generated annually by those kinds of tours.
While yesterday's announcement about the issuing of EU digital Covid certificates will help, the industry is facing a second pandemic-hit season.
Katie Farrell, owner of the Scariff Inn in Caherdaniel in south Kerry, says that in a normal season in on the Ring of Kerry, even starting as early as around St Patrick's week, you could have anything up to 150 buses a day, and her business would maybe take 10 of those