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Chinese Writers in Donegal

Four Chinese journalists have been visiting Ireland this week, as guests of Tourism Ireland.

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Pictured are Effie Jia, Iris Deng, Yuanyue Bi and Wang Ting with Xin Wang, Tourism Ireland (second right), and tour guide Min Lin Siew (right), at the Slieve League Cliffs, Co Donegal.

The group includes a blogger, a travel photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic and Lonely Planet, as well as two magazine journalists – who have a combined readership of more than 730,000 people in China. They are here to experience at first-hand some of the many things to see and do in Ireland for features stories they will write when they return home.

Donohoe in US Promos

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, has travelled to the United States with Tourism Ireland CEO, Niall Gibbons, to attend a number of tourism

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promotion events. During his visit, Minister Donohoe will be in Nashville and New York to launch our latest tourism initiative, Ireland’s Ancient East, to top travel agents, tour operators and travel media, as well as members of the Irish Diaspora, in both cities.

In Nashville, Minister Donohoe will also announce Tourism Ireland’s sponsorship of the second annual Music City Irish Festival, which will take place in Nashville in March 2016. The sponsorship is designed to encourage thousands of festival-goers to come visit Ireland next year.

WAW Workshops on Youth Market

Tourism businesses on the Wild Atlantic Way are participating in a series of Fáilte Ireland hosted workshops, designed to support the development of their understanding o

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f the international youth and adventure market and it’s potential to support increased international visitor numbers into Ireland.

The first of these workshops took place in The Brehon Hotel, Killarney. Two more will take place this week in The Ardilaun Hotel, Galway (15 September) and The Clarion Hotel, Sligo (16 September). A final workshop is also scheduled in The Clyde Hotel, Dublin on 22 September.

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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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