ITOA WORKSHOPS
The annual ITOA Workshops are amongst the most important fixtures in Irish Tourism’s Travel Trade events calendar. These events provide unique opportunities to meet and contract with Ireland’s largest and leading Tour Operators/Handling Agents and DMCs. ITOA member businesses package leisure and business tourism, promoting every element of Ireland’s tourism Industry globally. Over 450 tourism businesses attended our workshops in Limerick and Dublin in 2023, making it the largest trade and industry event after Meitheal in Ireland.
Why Attend These Workshops?
ITOA Workshops uniquely provide the opportunity to meet and network with ITOA members in one location, on one day to strengthen existing relations, meet new people and businesses as well as explore new business opportunities to win more overseas visitors. And ITOA members have a strong track record of delivering as they are:
- Tour Operators & DMC’s who sell packaged holiday and business tourism programmes to over 4,000 global travel trade partners and customers.
- Who in 2022 delivered over 537,000 overseas holiday and business visitors to Ireland.
- Who spend €462 Million in the Irish tourism and wider economy.
- Delivering more sustainable business:
- International visitors who stay longer, spend more and visit more regions across every part of the island.
- Packaged inclusive holiday, business and independent programmes with groups escorted by experienced guides. This ensures that a wider variety of visitor experiences, activity, transport providers and entertainment venues are supported by ITOA members.
- 76% of ITOA members business are groups that use coach transport which is 54% more carbon efficent than other modes of on-island travel options
- Partnering with Irish inbound Tourism businesses whose sole focus is on attracting international visitors, will extend your company’s reach to overseas markets.
When surveyed after our 2023 Workshops, attendees rated this event as being the most important trade engagement event in their annual promotion calendar for the following reasons:
- Ease of access to meeting all ITOA members in one day and in one location
- Opporutnity to reconnect with existing contacts in ITOA members companies as well as meeting new contacts to build new relationships and business opportunities
- Bed down business for this season and start contracting for future year
- A chance to reconnect with other tourism businesses and colleagues
- Learn more about the travel trade and gain insights and overseas market intelligence from ITOA members
- Get up to date information on how the season is likely to perform from the overseas markets
Dates:
WORKSHOP 1: February 27, 2024 – Radisson Hotel Limerick
WORKSHOP 2 : March 05 2024 – Fitzpatricks Castle Hotel, Dublin
Format:
- Open Meeting Sessions : 8 minute appointments
- ITOA member representatives will be seated with delegates moving freely to meetings.
- Including networking lunch and rolling refreshements throughout the day
- Two Sessions at each Workshop
- Morning from 08.30 – 12 noon – Registration opens from 07.45 am at the event
- OR Afternoon from 13.30 – 17:00 – Registration opens from 11.30 am
- Including networking lunch 12:05pm – 13:15pm
- Refreshments served throughout the morning and afternoon session
Registration:
Online registration for our 2024 workshops is now live, please click HERE to book your spot.
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As spaces are limited at each Workshop, a maximum of two representatives from any one company is permitted.
Workshop Fee:
The fee for our attending our ITOA workshop in Limerick or Dublin is €310.00 plus VAT at 23% per person. Registration remains open until the capacity of each workshop is reached and no later than February 23rd 2024 for the Limerick Workshop and March 1st for the Dublin Workshop or earlier if capacity is reached.
Please note that payment is required at the time of registration. Payment is accepted using VISA and MASTERCARD credit and debit cards. Please note in compliance with 3DS2 legislation a card authentication code will be required to complete payment which is generally forwarded electronically/texted to the card owner or via your banking app.
ITOA will continue to communicate with registered delegates by email once registration is complete and in advance of the events to assist in preparation for the events nearer the dates. So please be sure to look out for our email communications following registration from workshop@itoa-ireland.com and all queries should be forwarded to these dates also. If you wish to be included on our Workshop database for notifications use the sign up for Notifications here in the right hand colume.