Award-winning Galway events company moves major gathering into digital space

Connemara played host to a major national conference last week with over 1,200 delegates from across the country debating the future of our waters – without anyone actually leaving home.

Instead the award winning Galway-based Go West Conference and Events Company embraced the world of virtual conferencing, to adapt their normal work for this pandemic era.

Having recently relocated to the GTeic Hub in Spiddal, they hosted the EPA’s “Restoring Our Waters” Conference – marking a significant milestone for the company run by Kathleen McDonagh and Kerry O’Sullivan and celebrating its 25th year in business in 2020.

Business tourism is worth over €74m to Ireland each year – and this year alone. Go West were due to host in excess of 20 national and international conferences in Galway alone.

Some of those conferences have cancelled – but Kathleen and Kerry are working to bring them online as high quality virtual events.

“This will sustain jobs in Go West along with associated services in the areas of technology while also maintaining Galway’s position as conference and business tourism destination, as the economy and tourism industry evolves from Covid-19,” said Kathleen.

“Business tourism supports, events, hotels, restaurants, food producers, visitor attractions, entertainment venues and providers, taxis and transport companies and much more besides.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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