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Fáilte Ireland has launched a new, first of its kind industry wide Employer Excellence initiative that will provide tourism businesses with a competitive edge as they recruit and retain staff in a highly competitive employment market.

Tourism businesses in Galway are set to benefit from a new €55 million investment by Fáilte Ireland, which, according to a local TD, will ensure the sector is "well placed to thrive" when travel is permitted again.

To date, fifty nine tourism businesses in Westmeath have received the COVID-19 Safety Charter.

Looking ahead to 2021, Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin and Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development, Ciaran Cannon today announced funding of up to €100k for Mayo County Council through the Global Irish Festival Series.

Fáilte Ireland is looking for new festival ideas with the potential to motivate visitors to the region of the Wild Atlantic Way. The National Tourism Development Authority identifies festivals as a key driver of tourism growth, particularly outside of traditional tourism hotspots.

The Spanish Arch area of the city is set to be transformed following the announcement by Failte Ireland that it is making its single biggest investment in an attraction — the new Atlantic Museum Galway.

Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Kevin Boxer Moran, together with his fellow Athlone elected representative, Senator Gabrielle McFadden were in attendance at a recent Fáilte Ireland Oireachtas information clinic which detailed the nature of work being undertaken by the national tourism development authority in county Westmeath.

Galway businesses North and West Coast Links and Galway Bay Golf resort have joined Fáilte Ireland in Belfast this week to showcase the best of Irish courses to golfers from Northern Ireland in a bid to grow visitor numbers from the North.

Athlone is a focal feature of a major television campaign highlighting the town's attractions as part of the 'Ireland's Hidden Heartlands' promotional campaign. The ad uses a visual style to draw the viewer in and place themselves in the activities and landscape of the area, centred around the idea of Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands being ‘Yours to Uncover’.

“How often do you see a breakfast review in the weekend restaurant columns?” Georgina Campbell, president of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, asked when launching the Irish Breakfast Awards 2017 in Dublin. This awards scheme, organised in association with Fáilte Ireland, was designed to highlight the importance of the Irish breakfast to international visitors to Ireland and domestic travellers, and aims to support the use of Irish foods and quality produce as part of the Irish breakfast on offer.