Tourist boards unite to create dedicated Irish focus

ompany has been set up to handle joint tourism promotions for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

The company has been created under the Good Friday Agreement. It will be owned jointly by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Irish Tourist Board, with six board members from each side. The chairman will be from Northern Ireland and the vice-chairman from the republic but the head office will be in the south, with a regional office in the province.

It will be funded by the two tourist boards, which are expecting to have extra government money for the new body.