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LEADING Dutch travel professionals are visiting Killarney, Kerry and Ireland this week. All are guests of Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and leading Dutch tour operator Buro Scanbrit – a tour operator specialising in tours to Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia.

Independent travel organisers – who book travel packages on behalf of their clients through tour operators like Buro Scanbrit – have become increasingly important for Dutch travellers, so the aim of this visit is to showcase this part of Ireland to the travel organisers, so that when they return home they will be even more enthusiastic and better equipped to advise their clients about holidays here.

Their itinerary included the Ring of Kerry, Muckross House & Gardens and live music in the Danny Mann Inn in Killarney. They also enjoyed site inspections of Killarney Lakeland Cottages, the Arbutus Hotel Killarney, the Dingle Skellig Hotel and Parknasilla Resort & Spa. During their time in Kerry, they stayed overnight in the Old Killarney Cottages and dined in the Victoria House Hotel Killarney and the Dingle Benners Hotel.

Karen van der Horst, Tourism Ireland’s manager for the Netherlands, said: “The Netherlands is an important market for tourism to the island of Ireland and Tourism Ireland is rolling out a busy programme of promotions this autumn – aimed at boosting late-season travel to Ireland and to position us well for 2018.”
 

 
Above: Buro Scanbrit travel organisers at the Danny Mann Inn, Killarney.