Tag: Failte Ireland
Significant increase in visitor numbers over six months
Galway looks set to benefit from an upward surge in tourism – with new figures showing visitor numbers are up by twelve per cent...
Galway’s tourist season shoehorned into two months
Exactly one third of overseas visitors to Galway come during just two months of the summer.
The Fáilte Ireland analysis of the visitor numbers to...
Fleadh Cheoil would be worth €50m to local economy
The head of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann has said he would welcome an application to host a future Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Galway City,...
Tourists Wild about Atlantic Way
Overseas tourists were ‘driven wild by the Atlantic Way’ and visited Galway and the West of Ireland in record numbers last year.
Central Statistics Office...
Tourism body’s ‘don’t swim in Salthill’ blunder
Salthill has what is probably Galway’s most popular beach for swimmers but the people paid to promote it have warned tourists not to swim...
Tourism fair could bring millions of euro to Galway
Galway is in the running to host Ireland’s largest tourism trade fair, which would bring over 300 international tour operators to the city and...