Visits by Queen and Obama help Irish tourism numbers rise by 15 percent

What a joke. 1.8million visited between April and June - yet the queen and Obama arrived in the middle. Don't people realise that vacations are planned in advance? The figures have absolutely NOTHING to do with the state visits. Let's see what the next quarterly figures produce, then we will have some indication.

SeamusMor: Talking of promotional Films: Maummar Ghaddafi had the same idea when he made the star-studded "Lion of the Desert" with Rod Steiger and Anthony Quinn to unite the Libyan people and honour a Rebel hero of the eastern region, who drove the (Italian) occupiers out. Funny how things work out! There are plenty of 'tourists' there now; and I predict they will be harder to get rid of,than the Italians were! ~~~ Warning: a Brian Boru film might reignite bad feelings among 'Irish' tribes and lead to the same catastrophe!

I would love to see a movie about Brian Boru, only they better get (his)story, right. It would be a huge insult, not to.

SeamusMor, you've got my tongue hanging out for sure.

I think it is more about getting value for their dollar than comming here because Obama or the queen did. The Euro has dropped quite a bit recently. Asl might be a bit of the disporia wanting to visit/help their native land........

I give more credit to the Queen as it has been a long time since a British Queen or King has visited Ireland!!

Make Morgan LLywellyn's international best selling novel "Lion of Ireland", about the life, times, and legend of Brian Boru into a movie, and millions more will come to Ireland. 18% of tourists who come to Ireland do so because of something they have seen in a film. With the breath taking beauty of Ireland as a back drop, the story of the greatest Irish King would be a virtual commercial for tourism!

Make Morgan Llywellyn's international best selling novel,"Lion of Ireland" about the life, times, and legend of Bran Boru, and millions more will come. 18% of tourists come to Ireland because of something they have seen in a film. With the breath taking beauty of Ireland as a back drop, the story of Ireland's greatest King would be a virtual commercial for the tourism industry.