Infamous trip may land €500k for region

THE group which invited broadcaster Neil Prendeville to London as part of a promotional drive hopes to land up to €500,000 worth of business tourism from that trip alone.

The Cork Convention Bureau (CCB) was established as an initiative of the Cork Marketing Partnership, an organisation that brings together Cork Chamber, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, the Irish Hotel Federation’s Cork branch, the Cork Business Association, the Port of Cork, Cork Airport Authority and Fáilte Ireland South West region, to market the Cork region as a viable location for international meetings and conferences.

With support from Tourism Ireland, it organised for a group of leading Cork business people to travel from Cork to London on October 19 as part of a major drive to promote the area.