Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority of Ireland, have found that the St Patrick’s Day Festival of 2013 had twice the economic impact of the same event in 2010.

More than one million people from the U.S. and Canada visited the island of Ireland in 2012, a three percent increase on the previous year according to figures recently released from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office. 

Failte Ireland, Ireland’s National Tourism Development Authority, has said that The Gathering is already benefiting the Irish economy.

The Irish tourism board Failte Ireland (Welcome Ireland) is projecting there will strong growth in overall tourism numbers to Ireland in 2013, the result of serialized tourism marketing and The Gathering, a new tourism initiative that aims to attract 325,000 additional overseas visitors.

A festival for left handed people and an attempt to break a world record for bearded men are two of the 1,700 offbeat festivals announced for The Gathering, Ireland’s invitation for people to come reconnect with Ireland.

North American tourists who visited Ireland for the Notre Dame/Navy game provided a welcome boost to the economy.

Those at the head of The Gathering Ireland 2013 have vowed to weed out any events scheduled during the festival or any scammers attempting to claim some of the special funding being allocated.

Irish tourism officials have accused Gabriel Byrne of engaging in a "precious little rant" after he slammed the Gathering initiative as a money-making "scam".

Tourism Ireland has reached one million Facebook fans from around the world, an astonishing online success that makes it the third most popular tourism board, the Irish Examiner reports.

Minister of State for Tourism & Sport Michael Ring has urged anyone interested in the Gathering Ireland 2013 to head along to one of the last three Town Hall meetings being held over the next two weeks in Mayo, Limerick, and Kerry.

Tourism Ireland has bought the domain name Ireland.com from the Irish Times for $640,541 (€495,000). The website will be unveiled as a new URL for the Irish tourism industry later this year.

Come one, come all was the tourism message delivered by two of the Irish government’s leading ministers during a special event at the Irish Consulate in New York on Wednesday evening.

The number of overseas visitors to Irish shores jumped by more than half a million in 2011.
New figures show that Ireland enjoyed a bumper year for tourism with 6.6 million tourists coming to the country last year.

First Ireland welcomed Bollywood, now it's preparing to welcome its fans.

Ireland is no longer a prohibitively expensive tourist destination, according to Irish Minister for Tourism Leo Varadkar.

A video campaign launched by Tourism Ireland to entice Londoners to escape the Olympic madness has gone viral online.

WB Yeats is quoted as saying “The place that has influenced my life most is Sligo” and what better way to sell Yeats county than off the back of his words. “Arise and Go Now” is a campaign established by public and private interests to attract new visitors this summer.

Obama’s Irish cousin and resident Moneygall celebrity Henry Healy has secured a new job as a tourism ambassador for Ireland.