Click&Go will be the official Irish partner with the Lanzarote Marathon, taking place on Saturday, December 8. The travel company said runners can arrange race registration, travel and accommodation directly with Click&Go with a €1 deposit. The race course takes in parts of Costa Teguise, Arrecife, San Barlotomé and Puerto del Carmen, and an average […]

  Adare manor hotel of the year Reopened last November Colm Hannon headed Adare Manor was voted ‘Hotel of the Year 2018’ at the Virtuoso ‘Best of the Best Awards 2018’ held in Las Veg Adare Manor re-opened last November after a 21-month overhaul and extension that included 42 new rooms bringing the count up to […]

Dublin Airport has had the busiest month in its 78-year history with over 3.3m passengers in July. Passenger numbers are up 7pc compared to last July as Dublin Airport, with more than 100,000 passengers travelling every day during the month. Almost 200,000 passengers used Dublin Airport as a gateway to connect onward to another destination in July, which […]

Singer Ed Sheeran and TV presenter Dermot O’Leary are to promote Ireland in a campaign for Tourism Ireland this autumn. In the video, filmed at the London Irish Centre, O’Leary, born in London to Irish parents, asks Sheeran about touring in this country. He reveals that Dingle is his favourite place, but if he had […]

Tourism Minister Shane Ross has confirmed that the preferential 9pc VAT rate for the hospitality industry is being reviewed at Government level. He believes that the 9pc rate – introduced to help the hotel industry and tourism sector in general – may have served its purposed in its present form. Speaking at Tourism Ireland‘s mid-year […]

  Vienna new number one ahead of Melbourne Copenhagen also in top ten  Vienna was ranked as the most livable city in the world for the first time, by the Economist Intelligence Unit global survey. The survey, which measures “challenges to lifestyle across 140 cities around the world,” ranked Vienna the highest with a rating of […]

Dublin airport gets 3 storey €16m transfer facility Capacity to increase transfer traffic from current 1.6m to 6m A €16m transfer facility has opened to give Dublin Airport capacity to quadruple its connecting passenger business. The three-storey hub includes airline information desks, boarding card checkpoints, and immigration and customs facilities, allowing transfer passengers to complete […]

HEADLINES – AVIATION – AFLOAT – DEALWATCH – FOOD & WINE – HOTELS – INTERNATIONAL – IRELAND – STRANGE WORLD – TRAVEL TRADE   Things to know about travel this week Pittsburgh and Montreal in pole position for Aer Lingus T/A announcement Dublin airport parallel runway wil not open until 2022 Dublin to Sheremetyevo Moscow to […]

Volker Lorenz is back in the travel industry – after being appointed as Chief Operations Officer for CaminoWays.com, Greenlife Tours Ltd. The former face of Amadeus in Ireland, Volker will be leading the team of 40 travel professionals based in Blackpitts, Dublin 8, from mid-September. “I am delighted to be joining CaminoWays.com and to help […]