Visitors getting lost – looking for Galway City’s tourist office!

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Visitors looking for guidance to some of Galway City’s biggest attractions are getting lost on the way to the tourist office.

That’s according to a local councillor who said those who do find the information office – located at the City Museum – can’t access most of the services expected at a tourist office.

Cllr Níall McNelis said the new office was in an ideal location beside one of the city’s biggest attractions, but pointed out that those who Google ‘Fáilte Ireland office’ are directed to the organisation’s former offices in Liosbán Business Park – now the offices of the Galway City Tribune.

“There’s no signage around the town to point tourists towards it and when they get there, they can’t even buy tickets for some of the big attractions – basically all that’s available is a free map.”

That the office was closed every day for an hour at lunchtime and all day on Sunday was an “absolute scandal”, he continued.

In an email to Fáilte Ireland, the Labour councillor has sought answers as to why the office is closed on a Sunday and proposed that it should be selling tickets for major attractions such as day trips to the Aran Island, Connemara, the Corrib Princess, Trad on the Prom and the open-top bus tours.

This is a shortened preview version of this article. To read the rest of the story, see the June 10 edition of the Galway City Tribune. You can buy a digital edition HERE.