Visit Belfast Welcome Centre celebrates its first birthday Belfast Lord Mayor Nichola Mallon braves the winter chill with a slice of birthday cake as she joins the Visit Belfast team to mark the Welcome Centre’s first birthday. The first photo has the Lord Mayor, Visit Belfast Chief Executive, Gerry Lennon, and Mary Jo McCanny, Director of Visitor Servicing, Visit Belfast. Since opening, the state-of-the-art Visit Belfast Welcome Centre has welcomed more than 250,000 visitors through its doors and registered a significant uplift in footfall, ticket and retail sales. The Visitor Centre, one of Belfast City Council’s key capital projects within its wider £150 million Investment Programme, has already won a number of awards for its impressive use of digital technology and the enhanced visitor experience it provides. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Nichola Mallon, wished the Visit Belfast team a happy 1st birthday in their new location. “Tourism has become a key economic driver for Belfast, propelling investment while creating and sustaining jobs in a city which is bursting with things to do, see and enjoy. The Visit Belfast Welcome Centre is integral to the success which the tourism industry has achieved so far,” she said. With this investment in Visitor Servicing, Belfast City Council, with the help of the European Regional Development Fund and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, enables us to deliver memorable and first-class customer service and maximise the visitor experience for tourists coming to Belfast.” Visit Belfast Chief Executive, Gerry Lennon, said: “2014 has proved to be yet another great year for tourism in Belfast as visitors travel here for city breaks, conferences, events and on board the record number of cruise ships which have now made the city a permanent fixture on their international itineraries. “The Visit Belfast Welcome Centre is a part of our tourism achievements and I look forward to 2015 where we hope to welcome more visitors to the centre and the wider city region.” Visit Belfast is a public-private membership organisation supported by 570 tourism businesses and key strategic partners Translink, Diageo Northern Ireland and Value Cabs.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:49:50 +0000
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