"Spending time outside plants the seed of many new ideas."

Global and national challenges are set to be explored at the local level at an inaugural autumn school in West Cork.

West Cork tourism businesses will be hoping to learn from the experiences of a group in Co Clare who secured an accolade of ‘best place to holiday’ in Ireland.

A Cork hotel has been named one of the world’s best, according to travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller.