The Monday Interview: Seamus Heaney, executive chairman, Cork Convention Bureau

Business tourism is a burgeoning industry, worth €11.5m to the Cork economy in 2016. Pádraig Hoare hears from the Cork Convention Bureau that it can be worth infinitely more in the future

Business tourism is lucrative and according to the Cork Convention Bureau, it can become a staple of the local economy for generations to come.

Some 8,000 delegates coming to Cork to work and then play brought €11.5m with them in 2016, according to Fáilte Ireland’s analysis. That is set to rise to €12m in 2017 with 20 conferences and events taking place before the end of the year.