The body is aiming for another record year in 2016, by welcoming around 8.2 million visitors to the country a 4 per cent increase on this year.
The hugely anticipated Star Wars Episode 7 ‘The Force Awakens’ is due out in just three weeks, on the 18th of December.
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Given it was partly shot on Skellig Michael in Co Kerry, the CEO of Tourism Ireland, Niall Gibbons says a major visitor campaign to showcase Ireland will be launched just after the film is released.