Tourism Ireland

Winter nights under the stars 🌌 Glenveagh’s skies light up with the Milky Way, casting a magical glow over Co Donegal’s rugged beauty. The Milky Way’s glow lights up the rugged landscape, creating a sense of wonder and quiet that’s hard to find anywhere else. 📍 Glenveagh National Park, Co Donegal 📸 Instagram: patryksadowski.photo

  📣 Join Tourism Ireland’s virtual industry update to hear about our latest segmentation work and new key target audience! We spoke with 13,000 overseas holidaymakers in seven key markets, to explore the best potential segments for the island of Ireland. We will use our new understanding of those overseas holidaymakers who we can identify and motivate through targeted communications – to persuade the highest value overseas holidaymakers to choose the island of Ireland.   Date:  Wednesday 4th December 2024 Time: 10:00am – 10:45am   Register here by Tuesday 3rd December: https://lnkd.in/edAjpV5f  

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends and followers, from the island of Ireland. 📍 Mount Usher Gardens, Co Wicklow

Our 2024 sales mission to Australia and New Zealand is taking place this week. A delegation of eleven tourism companies from the island of Ireland is participating in the targeted sales mission, to grow tourism from both markets in 2025 and beyond. Visiting Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, the sales mission includes a B2B event in each city, featuring interactive presentations to showcase Ireland and the participating companies from Ireland engaging in hundreds of meetings with key travel professionals from Australia and New Zealand. Visitors from Australia and New Zealand are highly prized as they tend to stay longer, spend more and visit more regions than the average visitor to the island of Ireland. They travel right around the island and many visit in the shoulder season.

Ever met a giant storyteller? Hidden away in Glenelly Valley, Nowanois – the storyteller – spins tales as old as the landscape itself. This piece, crafted by Thomas Dambo, is just one of the magical sculptures along the Sperrin Sculpture Trail in Co Tyrone. The perfect spot for a peaceful November wander. 🍂 📍 Sperrin Sculpture Trail, Co Tyrone

Winter waves? Yes, please! 🏄 Strandhill Beach in Co Sligo proves that surfing isn’t just for summer. The colder months bring stronger, more powerful swells, making it perfect for those brave enough to take on the Atlantic! From Strandhill Beach to Bundoran in Co Donegal and the iconic waves of Lahinch in Co Clare, the island of Ireland is packed with surf spots that challenge even the most seasoned surfers – no matter the season. 🌊 📍 Strandhill Beach, Co Sligo

We were delighted to invite five luxury travel buyers from France to explore Ireland, to experience at first-hand our superb luxury tourism offering. They were here to carry out site inspections at some of our top luxury hotels, as well as to check out some of the many great things to see and do on a luxury holiday to Ireland. Seeing is believing – and our aim is that when they return home, they will be even more enthusiastic about the destination, helping to secure a greater share of their business for Ireland in 2025 and beyond. Here are the French luxury travel buyers on a tour of the Cliffs of Moher. #TourismIreland #FáilteIreland #AbbeyGroup

Congratulations to Fairways and FunDays Limited on on being named the World's Best Golf Tour Operator at the 2024 World Golf Awards. It’s a powerful reminder to golfers worldwide that the island of Ireland offers some of the most outstanding courses, breathtaking scenery and unforgettable experiences!

An episode of an Italian TV show called 'I Viaggi del Cuore', dedicated entirely to St Patrick, will reach more than 4.4 million Italians today. Airing on Italian TV channel Canale 5, the episode follows Italian priest and TV presenter Davide Banzato as he visits locations around the island of Ireland with connections to St Patrick. He travels to Downpatrick and Saul in County Down, St Patrick's Cathedral, the Hill of Tara, Croagh Patrick and St Patrick's Purgatory on Station Island in County Donegal. The episode concludes in Armagh. Filming was supported by Tourism Ireland.

The Wild Atlantic Way was featured in an episode of a popular Danish travel show called 'Anne-Vibeke Rejser' (meaning: ‘Anne-Vibeke Travels’) this week, which aired on Danish TV channel DK4. Over 350,000 Danes tuned in to see presenter Anne-Vibeke Isaksen explore Galway city and enjoy a horse-riding lesson with The Connemara Pony National Stud. She visited Kylemore Abbey, Westport House and Drumcliffe Church. Anne-Vibeke also enjoyed a walk with Irish Wolfhounds Ireland along Bertra Beach and a surfing lesson at the National Surf Centre on Strandhill Beach. Filming took place here earlier this year and was supported by #TourismIreland and #FáilteIreland.