Ireland’s 29 delegates have arrived in Los Angeles for the world’s largest single market inbound tourism conference, IPW.
Originally International Pow Wow, the event rotates to a different US city every year. For the first time the event is back to pre pandemic levels with 5,700 attendees, of which 1,700 are international buyers and media.
The delegates, including first timers Ed Finn, Catherine Murphy, Martin O’Regan, Selina Pridmore and Sarah Slattery, are split 16/13 between trade and media and consist of an official delegation of 25 and two independent attendees with other companies:
- Veronica Aherne of Tour America
- Ivan Beacom of Aer Lingus
- Nicola Brady of the Irish Independent
- Dee Burdock of American Holidays
- Isabel Conway freelance writer
- Eoghan Corry of Travel Extra
- Nicola Cox of Takewalks
- Fionn Davenport of ITTN
- April Drew family blogger Getawayswithkids
- Ed Finn of Sunshine radio
- Ciara Foley of Platinum Travel
- Kevin Gleeson of the Irish Mail
- Leslie Graham of Unravel Travel
- Barry Hammond of Sunway
- Donna Kenny of Tour America
- Tony Lane of Visit USA
- Melanie May freelance writer
- Michelle Aburto MacBeath of Travel Solutions
- Peter McMinn of Travel Solutions
- Catherine Murphy freelance writer
- Julianne O’Leary of the US embassy
- Martin O’Regan of Inflghtflix
- Tara Povey of WhereisTara blog
- Selina Pridmore of Innstant Travel
- Jenny Rafter of Aer Lingus
- Bladhana Richardson of American Holidays
- Linda Ryan of ClickandGo
- Don Shearer of Travelbiz
- Sarah Slattery of TheTravelExpert
