Cork city and county are to be actively promoted in Germany and Canada as part of efforts to grow visitor numbers by up to 10%.<\/p>\n
Tourism currently accounts for one in every ten jobs in Cork, employing some 22,500 people across the county.<\/p>\n
Visit Cork – the official tourism group charged with promoting the country’s largest county – has outlined its ambitions at its annual tourism industry day in Cork.<\/p>\n
It has identified Canada as its priority market from 2026, alongside continued focus on the US, UK, Spain, France and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
And with increased frequency on the Frankfurt-Cork air service this summer, Germany is also being targeted for increased visitor numbers.<\/p>\n
More than 150 local tourism and hospitality representatives attended the event.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, Seamus Heaney, Head of Visit Cork, said Cork is well positioned to grow its share of the international tourism market, but must diversify its overseas focus.<\/p>\n
“Cork sits at the intersection of Ireland’s Ancient East, the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland\u2019s Hidden Heartlands, giving us a unique positioning nationally and internationally. While the US remains important, it is vital that we are not over-reliant and continue to develop new overseas growth markets,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork city and county are to be actively promoted in Germany and Canada as part of efforts to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-310262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115980010982158859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}