The Meetings Show in London featured the message ‘Meet in Ireland’, promoting the island for corporate meetings and incentive travel. Tourism Ireland, alongside Fáilte Ireland and Tourism NI, attended the event with 28 tourism enterprises from Ireland.
During the two-day show, these companies engaged in approximately 840 commercial meetings with global meeting and event planners. Tourism Ireland aims to facilitate 7,500 commercial Business Events meetings this year, connecting local operators with international buyers.
Participating enterprises in cluded Anantara The Marker Dublin Hotel, BEM Ireland, Camden Court Hotel, Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown, Carlton Hotel Dublin Airport, Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, Dublin Convention Bureau, Game of Thrones Studio Tour, Grand Hotel Malahide, Hillsborough Castle and Gardens, Hilton Belfast, Iveagh Garden Hotel, Kerry Convention Bureau, Killarney Convention Centre, Locke Hotels, Marine Hotel Ballycastle, MHL Hotel Collection, Mount Juliet Estate, Neville Hotels, O’Donoghue Ring Collection, Portmarnock Resort & Jameson Golf Links, Slieve Russell Hotel, The Johnstown Estate, The Merrion, Tifco Hotel Group, Trinity College Dublin, Visit Belfast, Visit Cork and Visit Derry.
David Boyce shared: “The Meetings Show provides an important platform for us to promote Ireland as a premier destination for Business Events. They’re engaging in hundreds of commercial meetings and showcasing the best of Ireland to influential international meeting and incentive travel planners. Business travel is high value and often midweek and off season by its nature.”
