Niall Gibbons

Tourism Ireland CEO Talks Screen Tourism In New Zealand

Wellington in New Zealand, from its position as ‘Middle-Earth’, served as the setting for a recent discussion on the importance of screen touri...

Tourism Ireland Welcomes 3% Growth In Overseas Visitors For January-September 2017

Commenting on figures published today (Tuesday October 24) by the CSO for overseas visitors to Ireland for January to September 2017, Niall Gibbons, CEO of...

Tourism Ireland Welcomes Rise In Overseas Visitors To Northern Ireland In H1 2017

Tourism Ireland has welcomed the figures for overseas visitors to Northern Ireland for the first half of 2017, issued by NISRA (the Northern Ireland Statis...

Ireland Voted Best Destination In The World At Group Leisure & Travel Awards 2017

For the second year running, Ireland has triumphed at the Group Leisure & Travel Awards in Britain, after being voted "Best International Dest...

Visitors To Ireland Up 6.6%, UK Revenues Slip 3.7%

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released new data indicating that the numbers of overseas trips taken to Ireland increased 6.6% during the three mo...

Tourism Ireland Readies New Autumn Promotional Campaign

Tourism Ireland has launched an autumn promotional campaign to attempt to boost late-season travel to Ireland from overseas. Welsh TV and radio presente...

Cathay Pacific To Operate New Dublin To Hong Kong Service

Tourism Ireland has welcomed an announcement by airline Cathay Pacific that it will begin operating a new route from Hong Kong to Dublin in June 2018. T...

Hainan Airlines Looks Set To Run Dublin To Beijing Route

Chinese airline Hainan is said to be close to coming to an agreement with the Dublin Airport Authority to begin operating a direct route between Dublin and...