Jasmine Guinness has launched details of the Guinness Storehouse Ambassador Programme for the year of ‘The Gathering’. Irish residents can apply online to receive one of 50,000 exclusive ambassador cards entitling them to complimentary admission to the Guinness Storehouse throughout 2013. Their friends and family who come home for ‘The Gathering’ will also receive a ten percent discount off admission.
Paul Carty, Managing Director of the Guinness Storehouse commented that “during the year of ‘The Gathering’, Irish people are encouraged to invite family and friends ‘home’ to Ireland.
“We want to reward and encourage those who get behind this special year for Irish tourism by opening our doors to them, free of charge, throughout the year. The Guinness Storehouse is the ‘Home’ of Guinness, and in celebration of ‘The Gathering’, our 50,000 ambassadors are welcome to make our home theirs”.
Welcoming the announcement, Jim Miley, Project Director of the Gathering Ireland 2013 said “we’re delighted to see that the Guinness Storehouse is rolling out the green carpet for visitors to Ireland throughout 2013, the year of the Gathering. The concept of the Gathering is based on a personal invitation from the people of Ireland to our friends, family and connections overseas. The Guinness Storehouse ambassador programme will facilitate those of us hosting gatherings to offer our guests a unique experience at one of Ireland’s most popular attractions”.
Online sign up has already begun.
Throughout the year, active ambassadors will be entered into a competition to win their own Gathering party for 100 of their friends in the Gravity Bar at the Guinness Storehouse with food, refreshments and entertainment provided. Card holders will also be offered a range of benefits during 2013 including exclusive competitions to win tickets to Guinness events, Guinness merchandise and a range of special Guinness Storehouse experiences to be won throughout the year.
Earlier this month, Guinness Storehouse celebrated a record number of visitors for 2012 as almost 1.1 million passed through their doors during the year, 80,000 of whom were from Ireland. The attraction retained its position as Ireland’s number 1 visitor attraction with visitors from over 25 different countries including the US, Canada, U.K. Germany, Italy, Spain and further afield.
Ambassadors can sign up at www.guinness-storehouse/thegathering.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Paul Hogan | Feb 04, 2013, 10:01 AM EST
The last gathering they had in Ire land was called An Tostal in 1954. They used a maroon flag with a gold harp on it. They built a flowerbed in the middle of O'Connell's bridge and erected a big plastic flame. They called it the Tostal Flame. A few lads got drunk one night and threw it into the Liffey river. They had to send divers to get it. Although the Liffey at that point is not too deep when the tide is out but they were afraid that the Guinness barges plying between Guinness brewery and the North Wall would hit it and break it at low tide. That was the talk of Dublin, the Tostal Flame. Even though the economic conditions were very bad at that time it gave the people some thing to laugh about.
aloistmartin | Feb 03, 2013, 09:48 PM EST
Oh my Corn Flakes and Coffee :(