GAA & Tourism - A Joke.

[Bingo]

Not only tourists lads but GAA neutrals, what would take them to the games this weekend if Croker if they in and around Dublin.

Picked up the Star in the feeding house at lunch. 1/4 page colour ad for the super cup and pages on the clubs playing. Plus it had a column about tickets been on sale at the venue this weekend for it and other places they on sale.

No ad or details on the Croke Park games bar a small column about the expected attendence and also a bit about a fanpark type area they are putting in place for the weekend but it was short on detail and no mention of were tickets could be got. If they doing something they need to be shouting it from the rooftops.

Isn't the idea of good marketing that it pays for itself and then some.

[Bord na Mona man]

Not only tourists lads but GAA neutrals, what would take them to the games this weekend if Croker if they in and around Dublin.

Any promotion aimed at international tourists would also raise awareness among Irish people too.
The aim should be to try and make a trip to a GAA match to become part of the essential tourist experience in Ireland, like drinking a pint of Guinness.

A large amount of Irish people who have little connection to the GAA might get curious too.
You might get the Riverdance effect. People who would previously have cringed at displays of indigenous culture might change their point once they see that foreign visitors are impressed.

[neilthemac]

on that...
loads of Celtic shirts around Dublin today. buses of them heading across town to Landsdowne.
just shows there are people out there who would spend their money on any sort of dross for a day out.

[ziggysego]

What was with the grotesque clowns and women on stilts, dressed as Gallifrian Time Lords at Croke Park today? :/