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.





Are you inspired as well? Check out JetSetPilot's Trips to Ireland! Don't forget this blog is interactive as well, so leave your thoughts behind!