Tourism Ireland welcomes +9% growth in overseas visitors for November 2014-January 2015
Commenting on figures from the CSO for overseas visitors to Ireland between November 2014 and January 2015, Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “I am delighted to see an increase in overseas visitor numbers of+9% between November 2014 and January 2015, about 123,200 additional visitors when compared with the same three-month period last year. I am really pleased to […]
Tourism Ireland Welcomes +9% Growth In Overseas Visitors For January-May 2014
Figures issued by the CSO today show that overseas visitor numbers to Ireland increased by +9% for the first five months of 2014. Welcoming the figures, Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “I am really pleased to see continued growth in overseas visitors to Ireland for the five-month period January to May 2014, with an […]
Tourism Ireland Announces ‘Global Grenning’ Lineup for ST Patrick’s DayY 2014
UNESCO World Heritage Site Petra, the Holmenkollen ski jump and Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland® Paris join Tourism Ireland’s Global Greening for St Patrick’s 2014 – Tourism Ireland has lined up a fairytale ending for St Patrick’s Day this year, as Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland® Paris, the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo and the UNESCO World […]
Giant Leap For Tourism! Astraunaut Chris Hadfield Lends a Hand to Promote Ireland
The famous Canadian astronaut who put Ireland on the map with the first-ever tweet from space ‘as Gaeilge’ last year, arrived in Ireland yesterday. Tourism Ireland is hoping that he will help put Ireland ‘on the map’ again – this time as a top destination for holidays in 2014 and beyond. The organisation has enlisted […]
Tourism Ireland Looks Back on a Successful Year for Overseas Tourism
Tourism Ireland today reflected on highlights of its promotional activity around the world this year. 2013 was a strong year for overseas tourism, with eight million visitors (+7%) contributing €3.64 billion (+6%) in revenue to the economy. Growth has come from all market areas, with the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Spain and Australia turning […]
Laois Hotel Joins Tourism Ireland’s Sales Mission to China
Twenty Irish tourism companies travelled to China recently – including The Heritage Golf & Spa Resort at Killenard – to meet and do business with more than 450 top travel agents and tour operators, as well as key travel and lifestyle journalists, in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The week-long sales blitz involved workshops, presentations and networking […]
Laois Hotel targets new business for 2014 in San Diego and Santa Barbara
Nine tourism enterprises from around Ireland – including The Heritage Golf & Spa Resort in Killenard – travelled to California recently, to take part in Tourism Ireland’s final ‘Jump into Ireland’ sales blitz of 2013, which took place in the cities of San Diego and Santa Barbara. Altogether, the ‘Jump’ sales blitzes have targeted about 1,500 travel agents […]
A Taste of Laois at ‘Flavours’ Event in London
Tourism enterprises from around Ireland (including the Heritage Golf & Spa Resort, Killenard, travelled to London to take part in this year’s Flavours of Ireland. The B2B tourism workshop, organised by Tourism Ireland, saw 100 representatives of the top GB-based inbound tour operators come together to do business with 41 Irish tourism organisations. Now […]
Co Laois ‘Wows’ Australian Travel Writers
Seven leading Australian travel writers visited Laois recently, as guests of Tourism Ireland. Representing a news agency and various publications (like The West Australian newspaper and Australian Traveller magazine), with a combined reach of over 3.5 million people – or potential Australian holidaymakers – the journalists were here to experience at first-hand some of the many things to see […]
Ireland in 4TH Place on “Dream Destination” List
Readers of American Travel Magazine Vote Ireland Number Four Ireland has been voted number four in a list of “dream destinations” by the readers of a glossy travel magazine in the United States. Almost 8,000 readers of Virtuoso Life magazine took part in the seventh annual “Travel Dreams” survey – to reveal their ideal destination, travel experience […]