The Government has reportedly ordered an overhaul of the way Ireland is promoted as a tourist destination for foreign visitors.
Reports this morning said the move would see Fáilte Ireland take over the marketing functions of regional tourism bodies, while some tourist information offices could also be closed or downgraded.
The reports said the changes were recommended in an independent study of regional tourism structures commissioned following a decline in tourists outside Dublin.
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A lunar tourism project proposed by Russia's Federal Space Agency and its leading spacecraft manufacturer, Energia, will be launched by 2010, the agency announced in a Web site posting Thursday.
It said the project, to be carried out in association with the U.S. company Space Adventures, would offer around-the-moon trips on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Two tourists at a time will be able to go on such a trip, accompanied by a professional astronaut.
Space Adventures will have the exclusive right to market the project and search for potential tourists and investors, the agency said.
"We expect the
Tourism Holdings Ltd. (THL.NZ) expects its Australian business to continue its recent strong recovery as it benefits from efforts to keep costs down and from intense airline competition on the trans-Tasman route.
The New Zealand-based motor home rentals and adventure tourism operator hires out around 1,300 campervans in Australia and runs a car rental service.
Chief Executive Dennis Pickup said the company's Australian rental business has reduced costs by having agencies do bookings for it in some centers.
"We've made it a much more variable cost structure by allowing agencies to handle our business in areas such as Hobart, Adelaide,
The government of the state of São Paulo launched yesterday (10) the programme "Journeys for Tourism Development in São Paulo", to identify the tourist potential and develop the activity in 67 cities in the state. For such, the government will invest US$ 39.5 million in infrastructure, urbanization and sanitation in these cities. As well as that, another US$ 4.4 million will be invested in advertising the tourist destinations in the state.
We have to sell our product better. We have potential to make tourism in the state grow. Adventure tourism, religious tourism, beaches, mountains, historic sites, handicrafts," stated governor Geraldo
Tourism is a mixed bag in Italy, with artistic cities having good prospects, and other parts, like Calabria, with not as good expectations for the rest of the summer, emerged from a study conducted by FIPE Confcommercio which analysed the tourism situation. Tourism in the north-east was saved at the end of June by the 'Olympic Days of European Youth', where the young athletes brought an extra 3,000 people there in addition to Northern European tourists. There were also tourists coming from Eastern Europe and Japan. Americans were only passing through and only spent a weekend of relaxation there.
Some 200 leaders in the tourism industry in Central Luzon met here on Thursday to discuss ways to get a larger share of Japanese, Korean and Chinese tourists in the region.
Renewed focus on Asian tourists came as Japan, Korea and Greater China (Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China) ranked second, third and fourth, respectively, in Philippine tourism’s major markets, Department of Tourism reports showed.
These tourists contributed shares of 17 percent, 16.6 percent and 14.2 percent, respectively, to the 1.9 million arrivals in the country in 2003, and 2.05 million arrivals from January to November 2004.
Reports from the World Tourism Organization
