Tourism Ireland

Ireland has been hit quite hard by the recent global recession and has begun to think outside the box on its promotion to possible visitors, both leisure and business. They are using 25% of their current budget for online promotion of the country so I started looking around their website and found this really inspiring, interactive tool.

What the tool allows you to do is follow local natives as they briefly tour you through their favorite parts of their own country. Each tour takes about 5-10 minutes and highlights various cities, towns, villages and the surrounding countryside of one of the most wonderful countries in the world. The reason I love this tool is it allows you to get a feel of who the Irish are and what their culture and heritage means to them as opposed to some snooty TV show host imposing their narrow views (or my own for that matter) on you.





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Go To Cork!

Wait, you're going to Ireland but only visiting Dublin? There's so much more to Ireland than that wonderful city! In fact, there's Ireland's second largest city and second-best sightseeing launching point, Cork. Think of Cork as another base on the southern tip of Ireland, allowing you to see the lower half of Ireland much easier.

So what's close to Cork? Well, Blarney Castle in Blarney, Ireland with the Blarney Stone! Also, Killarney is nice large town within short driving distance. Also, it's nice just to drive the roads and see the countryside along with the shores of Ireland. Our recommendation, Just Go and look around until you see something worth stopping to take pictures of (it won't take long) and then repeat!

Cork is also a destination within itself. It may seem contradicting, but Cork was the main shove-off point for people emigrating from Ireland during the Great Famine and has many monuments and building commemorating this. Cork was Europe's "Capitol of European Culture" in 2005 and has gained instant fame in tourism because of it. There are many monuments and beautiful buildings, but there's even more beautiful landscape and people.

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One of the many tools I am using to grade all the neighborhoods of cities throughout Europe! It didn't hurt I was concentrating on Irish trips today plus it has a great little story towards the end.