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Irish at Beer Fest

The Irish pavilion at Toronto’s Festival of Beer was sponsored by Tourism Ireland for the first time this year and featured some of Ireland’s top brewers, finest chefs and emerging musicians.

Pictured are Pádraig Staunton, The White Hag; Elizabeth Coppola, Aer Lingus; Paul Mullin, The White Hag; Harry Colley, Dublin Pop Up; chef Gavan Murphy; Alison Metcalfe, Tourism Ireland; David O’Hare, Brú Brewery; Mary Heron, Aer Lingus; Julian Holland, Brú Brewery; Jonathan Sargeant and Dana Welch, both Tourism Ireland.

The annual festival, which took place last weekend, celebrates Canada’s rich brewing history and showcases experts of the brewing craft from around the world. At the Irish pavilion, there was Irish music and entertainment, as well as culinary treats from the Irish chefs and Irish brewers – giving Canadian attendees a real taste of Ireland. There was also a fun photo-booth, where festival-goers could place themselves in iconic spots around the island of Ireland and ‘jump into Ireland’ – to be in with a chance to win a holiday here.

First Half Visitors approach 4m.

Almost four million overseas visitors arrived in Ireland in the first half of 2015, according to latest CSO figures.

Commenting on the statistics , Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “Today’s figures indicate that this was the best ever January to June period for overseas visitors to Ireland, with almost 3.9 million arrivals recorded, representing an increase of +11.7% – an additional 407,100 overseas visitors – when compared with January to June 2014. Our aim is to ensure that 2015 is the best year ever for Irish tourism.

Meeting in Moscow

A delegation of Irish tourism enterprises travelled to Moscow, to take part in a B2B workshop – in a bid to grow Ireland’s share of the emerging Russian tourism market.

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Pictured are Siobhán Byrne, Adams & Butler; Benjamin Egorov, Preferred Hotels & Resorts; Veronika Smirnova and Elena Shreyder, both S7 Airlines; Paddy Sheridan, Dublin Differently; Ksenia Shevchenko and Alina Sutulova, both Kildare Village; Olga Pleshakova, Belmond Grand Hibernian; Made Ots, Abbey Tours; HE Eoin O’Leary, Irish

Ambassador to Russia; Irina Pichugina, British Airways; Doireann Hennebry, The Merrion Hotel; Maria Suvorova, Relais & Chateaux; Anna Malkova-Egorova, Travel Media; Grant Sarkisyan, Royal Green Tours; Gerard MacCarthy, Enterprise Ireland; Eliza Gorbunova, Tourism Ireland Russia; Robert Meade, Irish Embassy; and Paul Sheehan, Cork English World.

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New Paris Tourism Event

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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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