Tony Lane

What do Irish people want to do on a holiday to the USA? It’s a question we get asked all the time by tourist boards, but there’s no simple answer. Different visitors from Ireland have different interests, are at different stages of life and have different incomes, making the scope of activities very broad. However, the data collected by the U.S. International Trade Administration via their Survey of International Travelers (S.I.A.T.) gives us some useful, broad-brush insights into the most...

Woodstock Communications was delighted to represent Meet Boston , the city’s official tourist organisation, at the Aer Lingus Roadshow  in February 2026. The events took place in Belfast, Dublin, Limerick and Cork. The events provided a valuable opportunity to connect with representatives from the Irish travel trade , strengthen relationships, and highlight everything Boston has to offer as a leading U.S. destination for Irish travellers. From its rich history and culture to its vibrant...

Throughout 2025, the first year of the second Trump administration, there was an expectation that visitation from Ireland to the USA would reduce. There were negative stories in many of the major news outlets about numbers being down, including RTÉ , the Irish Times and Irish Examiner . There were also negative forecasts from prominent commercial tourism analytics firms, such as Tourism Economics , predicting that visitation from Ireland to the USA would be down in 2025. So how did actual...