Summer of Travel begins …
After a few hectic weeks and months and a lot of planning between myguideTravel, Tourism Ireland and all the 2007 participants, Summer of Travel has finally begun in earnest.
Last Wednesday myself (Robert Carpenter) and Philip Watkin made the long journey from our West Cork office to the Hotel Meyrick in Galway to meet all this years eager writers and photographers. After 6 hours in the car we got to meet and say hello to Joy (and her husband Paul), David, Liz, Erin, Joe and Agnes.
We all sat down for a nice dinner and used this opportunity to get to know each other a little better and provide answers to all their questions and ask some questions of our own. Everyone had questions on their assigned regions - methods of transport, internet accessibility, accommodation, camping facilities, car rental and car purchase to name but a few.
On the Thursday we ran a workshop in the Hotel which we used to tell everyone a little more about our company and the programs objectives as well as the priorities namely content submission (uploading images to our gallery and sending through of Travel articles) , using Spark our in-house communications tool, accommodation listings and some regional information.
The participants will be expected to submit content weekly which will then be reviewed by myguideTravel and Tourism Ireland and eventually published to our websites and made available for third party use.
After some internet problems in the hotel and some last minute car organising, we finally got through everything and then it was time to say goodbye and let all the guys and girls loose on Ireland to explore, experience and share their tales throughout their travels in Ireland.
Here’s looking forward to the content they produce and make sure to come back and sample some of their work of which i expect to have some at the end of this week.
Add comment June 12th, 2007