Profits at one of the country’s most popular visitor attractions, Titanic Belfast, jumped by 57% last year to £1.25m (€1.44m).

Titanic Belfast has been named as Europe’s top visitor attraction at a prestigious World Travel Awards.

When it comes to attracting the prized Chinese tourist, the task is complex — but the potential is huge.

Tourism chiefs are co-ordinating a sales offensive to attract more visitors from China, with the operators of Ireland’s top tourism draws and travel companies, including the Guinness Storehouse and Titanic Belfast.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates the North’s most popular visitor attraction last year declined by 31% to £800,697 (€1m).

Contract catering company Fitzers Catering last year recorded a pre-tax loss of €633,537, newly filed accounts show.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates the five-star Lough Eske Castle Hotel near Donegal town declined by 25% to €738,081 in 2013. The hotel is owned by Donegal man Pat Doherty’s Harcourt Developments which recently obtained unlimited status, meaning the property group is no longer required to file accounts.

More than 807,000 visitors attended the Titanic Belfast centre during its first year, it has been announced.

Are plans to recreate the 1912 voyage a homage to history, or just insensitive, asks Hazel Gaynor

A rare first class luncheon menu that survived the RMS Titanic disaster will go on display at a visitor centre in Belfast tomorrow.

One of the last letters from the Titanic is to go on display this summer at the new Belfast visitors’ centre dedicated to the liner.

An award-winning Belfast designer has retired on a high after watching his idea come to life on the walls of the Titanic building.

Special commemorative services, vigil marches and the opening of a £77m (€100m) visitors' centre are among the highlights of the three-week Titanic festival at the city where the vessel was built.

Jonathan De Burca Butler gets an exclusive look inside Belfast’s £97m homage to the doomed ship, with a replica staircase and 60,000 tickets pre-booked

More than 4,000 people are vying to land a job in the world’s largest Titanic visitor attraction.

WOULD-BE employees at the world’s largest Titanic visitor attraction are being asked to show the T factor in order to land a job.

Nearly 35,000 Titanic enthusiasts have already pre-ordered tickets to tour a new £90m (€108.1m) visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner.

A TITANIC-THEMED wedding might not provide the ideal metaphor for a plain-sailing future together, but that is unlikely to discourage couples reserving the North’s latest venue for their big day.