Tourism workshop is real business

REAL business, with bookings being made and contracts signed in some cases, is being done at the two-day Irish Travel Trade Workshop in Killarney, Co Kerry.

The 350 international tour operators in attendance have spending power of up to €1,000 million and some, who are in Ireland for the first time, are taking the opportunity to see the visitor attractions at first hand.

“This is our biggest annual tourism promotion and the whole purpose of the workshop is the 2004 programme,” explained Bord Fáilte spokesman John Brown.