Visit Cork Industry Day

Visit Cork is the official tourism body for the Cork region incorporating both leisure and business tourism in a single voice.

On February 12th we would like to invite you to join us as we share our achievements from 2019 as well as our plans for 2020 in both Leisure Tourism (Pure Cork) and Business Tourism (Cork Convention Bureau), along with our partners in Fáilte Ireland who will share the roadmap to delivering growth in the domestic short break market to 2023.
This new ‘Keep Discovering’ campaign will represents the largest and most intensive marketing campaign to date by Fáilte Ireland, with opportunities for tourism businesses in Cork to leverage these campaigns

Schedule:
9:30 - Registration (Tea/ Coffee, light breakfast)
10.00 – Welcome from Gerard O’Mahoney (Chair of Visit Cork)
10.10 – Seamus Heaney (Head of Visit Cork) looking back at 2019
10.20 – Visit Cork Plans 2020-22 – Seamus Heaney and Evelyn O’Sullivan (Manager, Cork Convention Bureau)
11.05 - How to take advantage of social media for both MICE and leisure tourism, with Eoin Kennedy (Zone Digital) 
11.15 – Fáilte Ireland  Business Tourism Plans – Sam Johnston (Manager Regional Convention Bureaux of Ireland)
11.30 – Site Ireland (Society of Incentive Travel Executives) – Arthur McGauran
11.45  – Fáilte Ireland unveiling of ‘Keep Discovering’  the new roadmap to delivering growth in the domestic short break market to 2023 – Alison Levins
13.00 – Q & A
13.30 – Finish