Tourism Towns 2015

Kilkenny City has been short-listed in  the 2015 Tourism Towns competition. The Awards Ceremony takes place in Dublin later in November.  The key judging criteria are set out under:

Kilkenny Castle Park  July 2015

Kilkenny Castle Park July 2015

• Sense of Place – How our City tells its own unique story to visitors, what’s special about it, and what distinguishes it from other towns and Cities.

  • Local Involvement – How our local community works together to provide an authentic visitor experience.

• Tourism Products Available – What our City has to offer visitors.

• Development and promotion of our City – How our City  takes a unified approach to marketing and developing  into a “tourism town”

Celebrating  a successful clean up!

Celebrating a successful clean up!

Welcome to the South East Regional Awards 2014

Keep Kilkenny Beautiful welcome all Tidy towns  south East Regional award winners to Kilkenny  on Thursday 27th November.  The awards event is to take place this year at the Newpark Hotel which is located  on the Castlecomer road.

If you arrive early why not  drop in  to Kilkenny city centre.

The award winning  Newpark marsh wild life area is also very close by  to  Newpark hotel with an attractive private   nature walk link direct from the Hotel .

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