Northern Ireland

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) UK & Ireland just released its 2025 PATA Patterns report, revealing key travel trends set to shape tourism across the Pacific Asia region. 

The Villa Vie Residences ship Odyssey finally embarked on the world’s longest cruise voyage on Monday, 30th September, from Belfast.

Aviation finance firm Avolon recently agreed to lease five Airbus A330neos to South Korean low-cost carrier T’way Air.

New research has uncovered the most-loved Irish tourist spots, based on top Tripadvisor ratings. The data revealed Kilkee Cliff Walk in County Clare as the tourist spot with the highest number of ‘excellent’ reviews, making up 91.8% of all reviews.

Dalata Hotel Group (“Dalata” or “the Group”), the largest hotel operator in Ireland with a growing presence in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, announces that for 2023, the Group secured a Green Tourism sustainability certification for all of its Clayton, Maldron and partner Hotels.

Custom tour operator Audley Travel surveyed premium travellers about their past and future travel plans, with Western Europe the most popular region for trips over the last five years (49 percent*) and the same number intend to travel in the next two years.

Northern Ireland’s only designer outlet has joined forces with the province’s hottest visitor attraction and the local Council to attract the attention of resident day-trippers north and south of the border plus visitors from further afield.

Cruise Plus, the sister brand of Gold Medal, are delighted to bring their agents their latest development, which showcases the luxury cruise market within their portfolio including enhancements across product, service, marketing content and rewards.  The ‘Luxury by Cruise Plus’ portfolio features specially selected market-leading luxury cruise lines – including Seabourn, Silversea, Explora Journeys, Azamara, […]

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported a significant pilot shortage in the aviation industry, with an estimated 27,000 vacancies at the end of 2021. Likewise, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) predicts that this shortage will continue to grow, with over 350,000 pilots required by 2026 to sustain operations. According to Alison Dsouza, […]

Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has opened a tender and is welcoming applications from interested parties to register for the position of Secretariat, a potential three-year contract to support the organisation’s committee, board members and PR team.

Specially timed to coincide with this week’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations, the new adverts will be seen in some of Tourism Ireland’s key markets, including Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Nordic countries. The campaign will continue to be rolled out in other markets over the coming weeks. The […]

It takes days, weeks really, to see the best of the greenest country in Europe – and trying to figure out what to do can be a bit overwhelming.

Aer Lingus the Irish carrier reveals their number of flights* to the United States has increased 236% since US borders reopened 12 months ago.

Europcar Mobility Group has appointed former GreenFlag Commercial Director, Mark Newberry as Commercial Director for the UK and Ireland.  Reporting directly to Ron Santiago, Managing Director, Europcar Mobility Group UK and Ireland, Mark has overall responsibility for sales and marketing of Europcar services in both consumer and business markets. A recent convert to electric motoring, Mark […]

The CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, announced that the airline’s trademark low-cost flights, which cost between € 1 and €10, would no longer be offered. O’Leary said we would not see our cheap promotional fares like the one euro fare, the €0.99 fare, or even the €9.99 fares for several years. The chief executive officer of […]

Following its collaboration with Tourism Ireland back in 2018 for a campaign, Hotelbeds is once again joining forces to promote the destination to travel agents in Germany, Spain, the UK and the US. Tourism Ireland has launched a truly comprehensive multi-channel campaign highlighting the island as a fantastic destination for a getaway or holiday. The […]

There are numerous places around the world that have schemes in place to tempt people to move there to boost their population and stimulate their economy.

Eastern Airways has launched its new service to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar which marks the operator’s return to Birmingham Airport as well as the popular route

Ireland will allow shops, restaurants, gyms and pubs serving food to reopen next week and permit travel between counties from 18 December, to facilitate a ‘different but special’ Christmas, Prime Minister Micheal Martin said.

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair announced that Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX aircraft may return to service in the United States as soon as next month. That would allow Ryanair to start receiving 737 MAX jets rebranded as 737-8 in early 2021.