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Tourism Spending Up with Numbers

Figures from the Central Statistics Office confirm that the recent boom in tourist numbers visiting Ireland is continuing apace, with 3.9 million overseas visitors to

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Ireland in the first six months of 2015 — an increase of 12% on 2014.

The total spend by all visitors to Ireland in the six months of 2015 grew by 16% to €2.35bn, while spending by holidaymakers was up 34.5%.

The total overseas nights increased by 10% to 26.5m nights, while holiday nights were up by 21%.There were 3.5 million staying visitors (at least one overnight) — an increase of 12% on 2013, while same-day visits (379,000) grew by 8%.

French tv crew in Dingle

Images of the Wild Atlantic Way will be seen by more than one million people in France early next year, after an episode of a popular travel TV show, called Échappées

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Belles, was filmed here this week.

Pictured are Seán Daly, Dingle Crystal (centre), with presenter Sophie Jovillard (second left) and the crew filming for Échappées Belles, in St James’ Church in Dingle.

The show’s presenter and film crew were here as guests of Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland, filming footage for a special Ireland episode, which will be broadcast in 2016 on France 3, the second largest public TV channel in France.

It's a Wrap

Tourism Ireland wrapped Metro newspapers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia this week – with attractive, four-page wraps highlighting great reasons to travel to the

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island of Ireland in the October to March period to about 600,000 commuters.

Pictured are Tourism Minister Paschal Donohoe (second left) with Alison Metcalfe and Niall Gibbons, both Tourism Ireland, with the New York edition of Metro ‘wrapped’ with an Ireland vacation message.

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New Paris Tourism Event

The latest news from the Joomla!

A delegation of 35 Irish tourism businesses travelled to Paris to take part in a brand new, B2B tourism event for 2015, Irlande à Paris.

The group is pictured with Caroline Phelan, Tourism Ireland (back, fifth right), and Game of Thrones characters (right), outside the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, where the new B2B tourism event, Irlande à Paris, took place.

Organised by Tourism Ireland, Irlande à Paris took place in the Irish Cultural Centre and involved two simultaneous workshops and networking events – one targeting group tour operators and travel agents, the other business tourism and MICE (meetings, incentive, conferences and events) buyers. It provided the Irish delegation with the opportunity to meet and do business with more than 250 carefully selected French travel professionals – including leading business tourism buyers, group tour operators and travel agents.

Monica MacLaverty, Tourism Ireland’s head of southern Europe, said: “2014 was a record year for French visitors to Ireland and Tourism Ireland in France is undertaking an extensive programme of promotional activity throughout 2015 – to keep the momentum going and build on that growth. We were delighted that so many influential French travel professionals took the time to come and meet our industry partners at our new event, Irlande à Paris – demonstrating their keen interest in programming the island of Ireland in 2015 and beyond.”

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