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Dragon Eggs in Tourism Promo

'Game of Thrones' props, including dragon eggs and three-eyed ravens, have been appearing in surprising locations around Belfast and Northern Irelan

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d over the past few weeks, as part of a new Tourism Ireland campaign created in partnership with HBO.

Tourism Ireland ceo Niall Gibbons and NI Tourism Minister Arlene Foster are pictured with the 'dragon eggs'.

Three-eyed ravens, replicas of those used in 'Game of Thrones', were seen perched on top of old-fashioned wooden signs, specially erected to point the way to some of the iconic locations around Northern Ireland where the series is filmed. And replica dragon eggs were placed among fruit and vegetables in a market stall in St George’s Market in Belfast. The eggs were ‘for sale’ to people visiting the market for the price of 125 Gold Dragons, the currency used in 'Game of Thrones'. What customers didn’t know was that one of the eggs was remote-controlled and proceeded to rattle and wobble around.

Video Awards for Failte Ireland

Fáilte Ireland has won an accolade for its business tourism marketing when it was awarded first place in the ‘Outstanding Contribution’ category at the Golden City Gate

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awards for its ‘Why Ireland’ video.

The Golden City Gate awards are presented annually over 5 days at ITB-Cinema at the ITB – Internationale Tourismus Börse in Berlin where best in class tourism videos are recognised.

Produced by Dublin based video production agency, BigO Media, the video portrays Ireland’s unique selling points of Ireland as a world class business tourism destination featuring state of the art infrastructure and the 100,000 welcomes.

€7,000 Trips on Irish 'Orient Express'

The company which operates the Orient Express trains in Europe plans to launch a service in Ireland with holidays costing up to €7,000

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Belmond Limited, a hotel, train and river cruise group, plans to offer luxury train holidays in Ireland from August 2016.

The “Belmond Grand Hibernian” will be similar to a land cruise, according to the company, with daily excursions to historic sights and top golf courses included.

Guests will travel in 20 luxury en-suite cabins, styled on the original Orient Express,with subtle Georgian and Celtic themes specifically for Ireland.

The five-star sleeper trains, driven by Irish Rail staff, will able to take up to 40 passengers at a time.

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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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