Mayor welcomes Executive decision

A new tourism initiative which sees visitors tour Inishowen by bus has been welcomed by the Mayor of Buncana, Cllr Lee Tedstone. Since becoming Mayor in June last, Cllr Tedstone has met with a number of tour operators from across Northern Ireland to discuss the possibility of coming to Buncrana and Inishowen and what they had to offer. And on Thursday last he met the first visitors to come to the peninsula via Derry-based Executive Travel and Tours. Mayor Tedstone said: “Over the past few weeks I met with the managing director of Executive Travel and Tours, Dessie Lynch, to discuss the possibility of bringing his visitors across the border into Inishowen on a more frequent basis. “Executive Travel and Tours are an internationally recognised tour operation. They bring people of all ages from all over Europe to the whole Island of Ireland. Buncrana and Inishowen now need to tap into this.” Mayor Tedstone said he was “delighted” to greet, what he said, was the first of many tour buses that would be brought to peninsula. He added: “Now that the hard work is done, I would suggest the people of Inishowen now take the lead and get in touch with these operators to ensure that nothing in our beautiful Inishowen is being missed. “Also I would encourage any operators in the North to get in touch with Inishowen tourism’s marketing manager, Kathleen Gill, to see how their tours can benefit from the beauty of Inishowen. I am happy to assist anyone in any initiative they might have. This summer is just a taster but I look forward to working with Executive Travel and Tours in the coming weeks to secure a fully fledged service integrating Northern Ireland with Inishowen and North West Donegal tourism.”