{"id":585871,"date":"2026-08-07T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:06:12","slug":"promoting-the-island-of-ireland-at-gtm-west-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585871\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting the island of Ireland at GTM West in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gtm-07-08.png\" class=\"image-article-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tourism Marketing<\/p>\n<p>Promoting the island of Ireland at GTM West in California<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the many great things to see and do right around the island of Ireland<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&amp;nbspFri 7th August 2026<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nav_bar_px.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 12px; \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gtm-07-08.png\" class=\"image-article-1\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\nPictured: James Hayde, Iveagh Garden Hotel; Keith McDonnell, EI Travel Group; Rebecca Vega, Tourism Ireland; Mark Woolner, Game of Thrones Studio Tour; and Lisa Jameson, Teeling Whiskey Distillery, at GTM in California.\n<\/p>\n<p>Four tourism companies from the island of Ireland have joined Tourism Ireland in Palm Springs in California this week, for the annual Global Travel Marketplace West (GTM West). <\/p>\n<p>GTM West is a three-day event, involving a programme of bespoke one-to-one appointments and networking sessions. The event offers an excellent opportunity for the participating tourism businesses from Ireland to meet, do business with and present to top-producing travel advisors from the United States \u2013 ensuring Ireland is \u2018top of mind\u2019 for them when recommending destinations to their clients. <\/p>\n<p>Alison Metcalfe, Tourism Ireland\u2019s Head of North America, said: \u201cOur presence at this year\u2019s GTM West in California provided another excellent platform to highlight the many great things to see and do right around the island of Ireland to influential American travel professionals. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cEvents like this provide a valuable opportunity for Tourism Ireland and our partners to connect and network with travel professionals who have the potential to bring valuable tourists to Ireland, helping to secure a greater share of their business for Ireland in 2026 and beyond.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In 2026, Tourism Ireland will deliver over 1,000 promotional opportunities for tourism SMEs from across the island of Ireland, enabling 35,000 commercial meetings between those local SMEs and overseas travel trade partners who bring visitors at scale and delivering \u20ac300 million in business pipeline. <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourismireland.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tourismireland.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Promoting+the+island+of+Ireland+at+GTM+West+in+California+%40HotelNews_ie%0ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotelnews.ie%2Farticles%2F2026%2Ftourismireland%2Fgtm-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotelnews.ie%2Farticles%2F2026%2Ftourismireland%2Fgtm-california&amp;title=Promoting+the+island+of+Ireland+at+GTM+West+in+California&amp;summary=Highlighting+the+many+great+things+to+see+and+do+right+around+the+island+of+Ireland&amp;source=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Promoting the island of Ireland at GTM West in California&amp;body=From HotelNews.ie: https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotelnews.ie%2Farticles%2F2026%2Ftourismireland%2Fgtm-california \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IHF Member Hotels &amp; Guesthouses and tourism industry partners can submit news stories for inclusion by emailing us at <a class=\"o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hotelnews.ie\/articles\/2026\/tourismireland\/mailto:hotelnews@ihf.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hotelnews@ihf.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourism Marketing Promoting the island of Ireland at GTM West in California Highlighting the many great things to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-585871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}