French students focus on Banner county for school tour project

IT’S a long, long way from Clare to France, but for 150 French schools that took part in a tourism project about the Cliffs of Moher, the Banner county now seems a lot closer.

Last October more than 1,100 students around France responded to an invitation from Tourism Ireland to develop an innovative project focusing on the Cliffs of Moher to be in a chance to win a class trip to the region in 2011.

The objective was to raise awareness of county Clare and the Shannon Region as an ideal destination for French school trips, and to encourage teachers to include this part of Ireland in their future itineraries.