City ambassadors help more than 18,000 visitors

LIMERICK’S street ambassadors helped more than 18,000 visitors this summer — almost double the number they met last year when they were introduced.

The roving tourist guides helped mostly foreign visitors — more than 15,000 from 64 countries.

While most tourists were American and European, the ambassadors also met visitors from places as far afield as Malaysia, Brazil, Kenya and China.