Irelandhotels.com Guide 2011

The 2011 Irelandhotels.com Guide was launched on 24th November 2010. The publication, formerly known as the Be Our Guest Guide, is now in its 24th edition and is renowned as Ireland’s largest accommodation listing, featuring hotels and guesthouses throughout the country. In the coming months, over 200,000 printed guides will be distributed across 22 countries, acting as a key marketing vehicle in promoting Ireland at home and abroad.

The Irelandhotels.com brand now brings together the IHF’s main marketing channels, including a new-look accommodation website, a specially developed mobile App, an online version of the Guide and a dedicated Facebook page. The Irelandhotels.com website provides guests with instant access to the best deals and special offers across a wide range of properties backed up by a ‘Best Available’ room guarantee. It features three dedicated special break sections on the homepage with Value Breaks, Spa Breaks and Guesthouse Breaks updated continually to provide exceptional value deals across hundreds of hotels and guesthouses.

Sponsored by Diageo, the printed version of the Guide provides visitors with a wealth of accommodation offerings and, in addition to detailed hotel and guesthouse listings, provides four comprehensive sections on Spa & Leisure facilities, Golfing, Angling and Conferences & Meetings facilities. It features 95 properties offering excellent value spa and leisure breaks, 136 hotels and guesthouses offering comprehensive golfing arrangements to their guests, either on site or by arrangement with local golf courses, as well as 49 properties catering for the needs of anglers. The ‘Conferences & Meetings’ section provides details of 182 properties offering designated conference facilities targeted at business tourism.

The Guide provides GPS co-ordinates for every hotel and guesthouse and includes a map reference for each property corresponding to Ordinance Survey maps, which are featured in the Guide to assist motoring visitors locate properties easily. Another feature of the Guide is the ‘Food for Kids’ logo which appears alongside premises participating in the IHF’s initiative offering healthier menus for children.

In the domestic market, the Irelandhotels.com Guide is distributed by Fáilte Ireland, Dublin Tourism, Shannon Development and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board via their tourist information office network. The Guide is also available through car hire companies, Eason and other leading book stores, the Guinness Storehouse, airports and the travel trade as well as in all the hotels and guesthouses featured in the Guide. In the overseas markets, Tourism Ireland distributes the Guide from all its offices to both consumers and travel trade in the UK, Continental Europe, North America and long haul markets.

The 2011 version of the Guide can also be viewed online at www.irelandhotels.com/onlineguide. Those on the move can access the online booking facility through the Irelandhotels.com mobile App which is available for the iPhone and Android smartphones and is being rolled out for Nokia and Samsung phones in the coming weeks. Visitors are also encouraged to join Irelandhotels.com’s growing fan base on Facebook to keep up to date with information, deals and competitions – www.facebook.com/irelandhotels

If you would like your property to be included in the 2012 Guide or would like copies of the 2011 Guide, please contact Miriam Young on 01 4976459.