Tourism NI to take a nostalgia trip for its 40th annual awards

Tourism NI is celebrating four decades of its awards in May — and wants past winners to share pictures and footage to show the growth of the sector over the years. The awards started life as the British Airways Tourism Endeavour Awards in 1978. And the 40th annual celebration will take place on May 24 at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. Last year’s event took place in Enniskillen Castle, Co Fermanagh. From left, Jorge Lopes, country director, Diageo NI; Tim Husbands, then chief executive of Titanic Belfast; Assumpta O’Neill, sales and marketing executive from Titanic Belfast, and Tourism NI chairman, Terence Brannigan