Paul and Marie Gallagher’s Downe Travel won the Travel Agent of the Year 2023 at the Northern Ireland Travel and Tourism Awards. The agency won the award previously in 2017.
Downe Travel is a family run business that has been established for 28 years, based in Balinahinch and Downpatrick.
The award winners:
- Accommodation only: Scuba
- Airline to Britain: Aer Lingus
- Airline to Europe: jet2
- Airline worldwide: Emirates
- Car hire: Dosomethingdifferent
- Cruise Luxury: Silversea
- Cruise Premium cruise: celebrity
- Cruise Rivercruise: Emerald
- Cruise: Royal Caribbean
- Ferry: Stena Line
- Hotel group: Palladium hotel group
- Ski: Travel Solutions
- Tour Operator Luxury: if Only
- Tour Operator Specialist: Beachcomber Tours
- Tour Operator Worldwide; Gold Medal
- Tourist information centre: Visit Belfast visitor Information Centre
- Trade representative: Robert Wilson Travel Solutions
- Trade support team: Travel Solutions
- Travel agency: Downe Travel
- Travel consultant: Eamonn Wilkinson Stewart Travel belfast
- Travel student: Andrea Suciu, Belfast MET
- Visitor Attraction: Titanic Belfast
