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Vagabrothers Go West

Vagabrothers, Mark and Alex Ayling from California who are award-winning travel videographers and writers arrived in Sligo to experience and savour the sights, sounds, aromas and flavours of the Wild Atlantic Way.

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Pictured in Sligo were Neil Walton, VOYA; Marko Ayling, Vagabrothers; Noelle Cawley, Fáilte Ireland and Alex Ayling, Vagabrothers.

Over the coming days the brothers will undertake a bespoke ten day itinerary of the Wild Atlantic Way, which was designed by Fáilte Ireland and supported by Tourism Ireland. Today, the brothers went surfing in Standhill with local surfer Seamus McGolderick, followed by lunch at Shells Café and then met with Neill Walton and experienced a seaweed bath at VOYA, immersing themselves in the Wild Atlantic Way’s finest natural produce, seaweed with its many health benefits.

Festival Plans Deadline

Failte Ireland has announced the opening and closing dates for applications to the National Festivals and Participative Events Programme 2016.

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Festivals and events have been identified as being an important component of the Irish tourism product offering. Festivals provide opportunities to showcase culture, people and places, thereby greatly improving the visitor experience of Ireland. They also help improve the distribution of tourism revenue around the country. Consequently, Fáilte Ireland provides considerable support to festivals, investing nearly €3.5m in 214 festivals and events in 2015.

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Moncrief in Birr

Fáilte Ireland’s Discover Ireland teams up with the Sean Moncrieff Show on Newstalk for an Outside Broadcast at Birr Castle, Co. Offalyt o-day, Friday 28^th August between 1.30 and 4.30pm. The three-hour broadcast will promote the local area of Offaly, which is part of Fáilte Ireland’s new tourism initiative ‘Ireland’s Ancient East’, Birr Castle and the forthcoming Irish Game and Country Fair which is being held at Birr Castle this weekend.

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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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