County Clare ranked 38 in the Global Destination Sustainability Index
View to Inisheer from Doonagore Castle, Doolin. Photo Brian Morrison County Clare has been ranked…
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Lantern-led tours among Halloween scares at free festival in Hook Lighthouse
A free traditional Samhain Festival at Hook Lighthouse on October 29th and 30th will feature…
CSO: Visitors to Ireland stay 8.7 nights and spend an average of €1,346 on their trips
In July 2023, out of the 650,200 foreign resident overnight visitors departing Ireland on overseas…
Transport For Ireland app lets passengers down (again)
The Transport For Ireland app which recently replaced the Dublin Bus app faced further criticism…
The Budget measure designed to bring the next ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Star Wars’ to Ireland
Russell Crowe in the Pope’s Exorcist, currently being filmed in Wicklow The tax break for…
WATCH Economist Jim Power: ‘What an inopportune time to raise the VAT rate’
WATCH Economist Jim Power: ‘What an inopportune time to raise the VAT rate,’ speaking at…
Tourism responds to Budget 2024: a ‘missed opportunity’, labour-intensive industries such as tourism and hospitality ‘now at a critical juncture’
The Irish hospitality industry has described the decision to leave VAT at 13.5pc a ‘missed opportunity’…
Budget 2024: Local authorities will handle support scheme for small businesses
The support scheme for small to medium-sized businesses, announced in Budget 2024, will come through…
Budget 2024: this is what the Irish tourism and hospitality industry wants
This is a summary of the wish list from Ireland’s tourism and hospitality industry for…
Lighthouses in Ireland attracted 622k visitors last year
Yvonne Shields O’Connor, CEO of Irish Lights Lighthouse tourism attracted 622,000 people last year, ‘bringing…
Consultation process begins for Arklow Shillelagh Greenway
A public consultation process for the Arklow Shillelagh Greenway has begun after 16 years of…
WATCH: 25 years of Tourism Ireland, ‘David Trimble had only 2 interests (apart from abusing me), canals & opera’
n the talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement and the foundation of 25…
What counties have never won a national tidy towns award? the results will surprise you.
By winning the 2023 award, Abbeyleix from Laois became the second town form the county…
AirBnB creates fund to help restore Ireland’s historic homes for tourism
Thomas Cosby of Historic Houses of Ireland Home letting home lettings agency Airbnb has announced…
Extra date will bring Cork jazz festival to 5 days & 100k attendance
The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has added an extra date this year due, organisers say,…
Cliste hospitality conference to focus on AI, sustainability and future technologies
Paul Armstrong founder of TBD Group Irish Hospitality Perspectives Conference 2024 conference organised by Cliste…
Ireland won the friendliest country in Europe in the 2023 Condé Nast Traveller reader awards. Here is the full list of winners
Melinda Stevens editor of Condé Nast Traveller Ireland won the friendliest country in Europe in…
Ennistymon completes improvements under €500k Destination Towns initiative
Pat Dowling CEO of Clare County Council and Siobhan King Failte Ireland with Leonard Cleary,…
An Armada of 10,000 hand made boats among 200 events planned for Belfast 2024 programme
Ryan Murphy Mayor fo Belfast Belfast City Council has approved a €6.8m investment to host…
‘The potential to leave a lasting legacy for the region.’
Delegates from around the world to One Young World Summit in Belfast were treated to…
WATCH: ‘If the Hidden Heartlands did not exist we would have to invent it’
‘If the Hidden Heartlands did not exist we would have to invent it’ Siobhan McManamy…
‘Anyone that believes what a politician said before elections is definitely nuts’
“Anyone that believes what politician said before elections is definitely nuts,” former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern…
Culture night: ‘Generations of families and groups of friends coming out to explore’
First held in 2006 in Temple Bar, Culture Night, a series of free cultural events…
Should Ireland join Schengen? These are the 38 points in the ITIC plan for Irish tourism.
Ruth Andrews of the ITOA A Metro to the airport, a SAF production facility, bring…
‘Irish tourism is not expected to recover to pre pandemic levels until 2026, behind other sectors’
Elaine Fitzgerald, chair of ITIC Irish tourism is not expected to recover to pre pandemic…
‘Pre-pandemic the split was 44/56, now it is 67/33 in favour of home holidays’
Figures to be presented to the ITIC conference in Athlone on Monday September 18 show…
ITIC Conference programme Monday Sept 18 2023
09.15: Registrations 10.00: Conference opened by MC and Broadcaster Dearbhail McDonald 10.05: Opening address by…
Tourism Ireland CEO Niall Gibbons origin of icons going green for St Patrick’s Day
With 500 icons set to go green for St Patrick’s Day 2020 we asked Tourism…
WATCH: Update on Tourism Ireland from CEO Niall Gibbons
Niall Gibbons Tourism Ireland Briefing in advance of the St Patrick’s Day greening project, Feb…
WATCH: tourism minister Brendan Griffin
We caught with tourism minister Brendan Griffin https://youtu.be/-ITO58Ucveo
WATCH Visit Derry roadshow @Fitzwilliam Hotel
WATCH Visit Derry roadshow @Fitzwilliam Hotel, Feb 19 2020. Karen Henderson of Visit Derry organised an…
The COST of Brexit to Irish tourism: 3 lost years, 1m visitors and €300m in revenue, and it has not even happened yet
A million lost tourists to Ireland inbound N America growth mass Britain fall The…
Ireland and Wales combine in Celtic Routes tourist marketing initiative
Six counties combine in tourist initiative Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion in…
Failte Ireland says regionality is costing Irish tourism market share
Regionality is costing Irish tourism market share Failte ireland’s Paul Kelly says ireland should be…
Visitors from Britain in March down 5.49p on pre Brexit levels
Visitor numbers are up 3.3pc to 784,700 Britain trails 2018 total Central Statistics Office travel…
Limerick positions itself as a gateway to Wild Atlantic Way as it pushes for 1.1m visitors
In 2017 Limerick had: 931,000 visitors – almost 70pc from overseas Total spend locally of…
Doolin named a ‘destination of excellence’ under Fáilte Ireland accreditation system
Doolin awarded destination of excellence under Fáilte Ireland accreditation system 120 frontline staff across 41…
Shannon Heritage to further develop historic Newbridge House as tourist attraction
Dublin’s Newbridge House and Farm – which bills itself as Ireland’s only intact Georgian mansion and estate…
Government must act now as Irish tourism faces €390m hit from Hard Brexit – ITIC
Tourism body said industry could add 80,000 more jobs by 2025 under right policies Government…
Tourism Ireland wins French travel award for fifth time
– has won the prize for ‘best foreign tourist office website’ at the French hospitality…