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Millions of potential holidaymakers all over the US are reading about the west of Ireland this month, on the travel pages of the hugely popular Huffington Post news website, which attracts an average audience of 34 million readers each day.
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Joe Byrne, cheap motels in manchester nh Tourism Ireland s executive vice president United States and Canada, said: We were delighted to bring Richard Bangs to the west of Ireland. The exposure for the series cheap motels in manchester nh he has produced through the Huffington Post alone, with more than 34 million visitors each day, is fantastic. It is an excellent way to reach a wide audience of potential cheap motels in manchester nh holidaymakers right across the US, raising the profile of the west of Ireland and the huge variety of things to see and do, and encouraging more Americans to vacation in the west of Ireland cheap motels in manchester nh in 2012.
The United States is a tremendously important market for tourism to the island of Ireland, second only to Great Britain in terms of visitor numbers. And the good news is that Ireland ranks at number seven among in the list of aspirational holiday destinations that Americans would like to visit. The most recent CSO figures, for the period January-November 2011, show growth in visitor numbers from North America of +5.6% an encouraging basis on which we plan to build in 2012.
Richard Bangs has been nicknamed the father of modern adventure travel cheap motels in manchester nh , having spent more than 30 years as an explorer and having published over 1,000 magazine articles, 19 books and numerous documentaries. Bangs was part of the founding executive team of Expedia.com, serving as its editor-at-large.
By the end of 2011, almost 7.4 million overseas visitors will have come to the island of Ireland (+7% on 2010), cheap motels in manchester nh delivering revenue of approximately 3.4 billion. Overseas tourism business accounts for 59% of all tourism revenue.
Tourism Ireland s international website is www.discoverireland.com ; there are 42 different websites, providing information in 14 different languages covering every continent. In 2010 discoverireland.com attracted almost 12 million unique cheap motels in manchester nh visitors.