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Convention to Boost Golf Tourism

Fáilte Ireland is hosting 40 top international golf buyers and media in Ireland this week to attend the 2015 Golf Ireland Convention and negotiate overseas business f

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or 2015 and 2016.

Fáilte Ireland, in conjunction with the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO), Tourism Northern Ireland and Tourism Ireland, is arranging the forum for key overseas golf operators to meet directly with over 50 Irish golf industry members from all around Ireland and to learn at first hand all about the world class golf, fantastic experience and world class value, Ireland has to offer to the overseas golfer.

The international buyers have been selected from core golf tourism markets, including Great Britain, Germany, the Nordics, the US and Canada and represent some of the biggest producers of golf business as well as those with the most potential to grow golf tourism into Ireland.

German MICE buyers in Dublin

Fáilte Ireland yesterday welconed eight German Corporate Meetings and Incentive Travel buyers on a three day visit to Dublin . The trip is intended to grow MICE busin

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ess from the German market. Overall the MICE sector is worth €576m to the Irish economy per year.

As part of the trip, 16 Irish providers (including BEM Ireland, The Marker, Castle Leslie, Citywest Hotel, Fitzwilliam Hotel to name but a few) will also have an opportunity to network with the buyers at a networking reception tailored to build greater working relationships and to generate new business.

Speaking in anticipation of this week’s visit, Ciara Gallagher, Business Tourism Officer with Fáilte Ireland, said:

Slow Food Fest for Clare

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The rising popularity of the Slow Food movement in Ireland will be demonstrated in County Clare this May when Michelin Star chefs and food producers come together for the Burren Slow Food Week Festival 2015.

John Sheedy of Sheedy's Restaurant, Birgitta Hedin Curtin of Burren Smokehouse, Jason Horner of Leen Organics and Gerry Sweeney of Burren Seafoods are pictured promoting the event.

Supported by the Burren & Cliffs of Moher Geopark and featuring members of The Burren Food Trail and The Burren Adventure, the 9th annual festival will feature 34 food events ranging from workshops and demonstrations to food sampling and foraging walks throughout the Burren.

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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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