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GULLIVER IRELAND, the owner of one of Ireland’s longest estab- lished travel websites, Golreland. com, announced yesterday that it has relaunched the website to consolidate its positioning as the largest tourist accommodation website on the is- land of Ireland.
Gulliver Ireland, Ireland’s leading cost effective provider of reserva-
tions and tourism information, 1s part of FEXCO.
The Golreland.com website will handle a projected 55,000 domestic and overseas bookings this year, which equates to almost 200,000 bednights. Traffic to the new website during the first four weeks increased by 15 per cent compared with last year, which is attributed to better visibility on search engines. Golre- land.com was ranked in the Top 15
Travel and Airlines Market in the newly published “The Net Behaviour Report’ on Irish internet usage.
The website has a new ‘look and feel’, featuring more travel informa- tion on ‘things to see and do’ and offering a wider spread of tourist ac- commodation, approximately 8,000 properties, which is more than any other Irish tourism-related website.
The overhaul of the website’s con- tent, which has a significant regional
focus including regional landing pages for all counties, will continue throughout the year. The new web- site allows tourism business owners to sell their properties better than ever by including detailed premises and local information, photographs and the option of enhanced listings. It delivers booking availability in every county on the island and across all accommodation categories. “People booking accommodation
are booking an experience. To sell effectively online, you have to show your customers the kind of experi- ences they can have.
They urge businesses to take ad- vantage of the new Golreland.com website and show up to 120,000 visi- tors every week at the height of the tourist season what you have and what is around you,’ said Dr Stew- art Stephens, Managing Director of Gulliver Ireland.