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Catering company Kylemore Services Group , which serves an estimated 12 million meals annually in more than 110 restaurants nationwide, has teamed up with University College Cork for a “farm to fork” initiative that sees food grown on the college’s campus being served to students.

KSG now hopes to roll out the programme to other clients across Ireland who have additional land to spare and are keen on encouraging healthier eating.

The catering group, whose retail brands include Cafe Kylemore, Quiznos, Coffee Cuisine and Pure Juice Bars, has partnered with UCC for the initiative which sees fresh vegetables and herbs planted on an eight-acre site being used in a range of dishes in the college’s restaurants.

Mulrany, Co. Mayo was the Overalll Winner in the  2016 Irish Responsible Tourism Awards were announced at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin . The Glenheagle Hotel in Killarney also won a Gold Award.

 The Irish Responsible Tourism Awards are part of a growing family of worldwide responsible tourism awards which are all linked to the World Responsible Tourism Awards, founded by responsibletravel.com. Winners of each of the categories will be longlisted for the World Responsible Tourism Awards – a great opportunity for the Irish trade to raise international awareness.

The award categories and the winners of the Silver & Gold awards are:

GOLD: Doolin Cave (Co. Clare)

SILVER: Burren Nature Sanctuary (Co. Galway)

SILVER: Sea Synergy Marine Awareness & Activity Centre (Co. Kerry)

GOLD: Gleneagle Hotel Group (Co. Kerry)

SILVER: Mobility Mojo

A group of top coach tour operators from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are in Ireland  to get a taster of all that Ireland has to offer their clients with a view to creating a new

 programme for 2017. This trip is just one of a number of events designed, hosted and managed by Fáilte Ireland, in collaboration with Tourism Ireland, to help increase visitor numbers.

  The group are pictured at King House, Roscommon with Marlene Burke, Failte Ireland. 

 Tourism Minister Patrick O’Donovan joined tourism enterprises from the island of Ireland in London , for 'Flavours of Ireland 2016' Flavours is Tourism Ireland’s annual B2B 

tourism workshop, now in its 14th year, which saw some 100 representatives of the top inbound tour operators based in Britain come together to do business with the various tourism organisations from Ireland.