{"id":1197,"date":"2011-03-03T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.clicdublin.ie\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2011-03-03T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:31:19","slug":"ireland-is-fifth-most-popular-tourism-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"Ireland is fifth most popular tourism destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clicnews.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tourism_ireland_logo2-234x82.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clicnews.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tourism_ireland_logo2-234x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a>Ireland is now the fifth most popular tourism destination in the world on Facebook \u2013 according to Tourism Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Ireland\u2019s fanbase has grown from zero at the beginning of 2010 to 250,000 this week.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation is seeing the page get about 2,500 new fans per day.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Ireland now has fans in 14 countries around the globe \u2013 including Great Britain, America, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, India, Japan, New Zealand and the Gulf Countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social media now allows word of mouth about a holiday destination to reach a truly global audience,&#8221; said Mark Henry, Tourism Ireland\u2019s Central Marketing Director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a fanbase of this size allows Tourism Ireland to communicate over 3.5 million messages about the island of Ireland each month to prospective visitors,&#8221; Mr Henry added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is now the fifth most popular tourism destination in the world on Facebook \u2013 according to Tourism Ireland. Tourism Ireland\u2019s fanbase has grown from zero at the beginning of 2010 to 250,000 this week. The organisation is seeing the page get about 2,500 new fans per day. Tourism Ireland now has fans in 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}