Travelbiz E-Zine
22
February
2025

Taste of America Roadshow wraps up in the Sunny South East

#Traveltradetogether

#Travelbizconnect #TasteofAmerica2024 #AerLingus #Travelbizhub #ShannonAirport

Travelbiz concludes our four days with the Taste of the USA team members in the nations real Capital. From Belfast, Dublin, Limerick to Cork. It’s been a pleasure working with you all providing coverage and Trade connectivity via our www.travelbiz award winning hub and Trade Updates ensuring your message gets to the people that count.

Thanks so much Ivan Beacom and Lynsey Lamont from Aer Lingus for all of your support and inclusion over the past four days.

Don Shearer (Travelbiz Group Managing Director).

Sponsored by Shannon Airport and Brand USA , the Aer Lingus Taste of America trade partners arrived in Cork for the grand finale of the Aer Lingus Taste of America Roadshow! Declan Power and Isabel Harrison from Shannon Airport, once again provided amazing prizes with tickets to New and Boston with Aer Lingus and the “must have” Shannon Airport Hampers.

After four incredible days traveling nationwide, delivering destination and route updates to our amazing retail and wholesale trade members, we couldn’t have asked for a better way to wrap up this successful series than with a full house of enthusiastic agents from the always sunny Southeast!

A huge THANK YOU to all our USA trade partners for your incredible support:

Brand USA

Meet Boston

Philadelphia & the Countryside of Philadelphia

Miami

Central Florida

Visit Seattle / Port of Seattle

Visit Denver / Colorado

Destination Cleveland

Illinois Office of Tourism

Bloomington Convention and Visitors Bureau

Visit Orlando

Visit Orlando / Universal

Experience Kissimmee

San Francisco Travel Association

Las Vegas CVA

Capital Region USA

Tennessee Tourism

Nashville

Visit Greater Palm Springs

Atlantic City & New Jersey

Florida’s Paradise Coast

Sonoma County & Yosemite | Madera

Brand USA

Washington CVB

All trade partners were thrilled with the high level of trade engagement over the course of the last four days where they got to connect with hundreds of retail and wholesale partners in Ireland. The key now is to ensure we all follow up with the incredible content and assets provided this week to support all 23 partners and 19 direct routes with Aer Lingus to the USA in 2025.

Stay tuned to Travelbiz as we will bring you regular destination and route follow ups on our all new Travelbiz Hub and Trade Partners daily updates on www.travelbiz.ie

#TasteofAmerica2024 #USA #TravelTrade #Cork #AlwaysSunnySoutheast #ConnectingTheTrade

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