The Port Tourism and Business Network Presents: SMART Tools & Resources to Promote your Port and District

Date: Wednesday 11th January 2023 10.30am – 11.30am

Guest Speaker: James Louis Smith, Postdoctoral Research Fellow—’Ports, Past and Present’ project

Attendee prep: Attendees will be provided with prep required prior to workshop

• Mags Boland Murphy from Bofin Consultancy will share tips on working smarter by utilising tools and resources available to you.
• You will be provided with an insight into some of the free and economical tools that you can use to help promote and manage your business into 2023 and beyond.
• The workshop will include a brief reference to social media outlining some free promotional tools, tune into our social media workshop for a more in depth conversation.
• This workshop will help you to prepare for the season ahead and you will come away with some great insight into promoting your business, your location and your region in a way that doesn’t need to cost a lot!
• Guest speaker James Louis Smith (who has worked extensively on the Ports, Past and Present Project) will discuss one free tool at your disposal; the Port Places App which he helped to develop. This app allows you to explore the depth of history and heritage surrounding five active ferry ports on the Irish Sea: Dublin Port, Rosslare, Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock. This app allows the user to download their choice of curated experiences, each providing a vision of port life, creativity, history and heritage.
• See ports differently through walking tours, multimedia collections and stories.
• Cross the Irish Sea and learn about the history of your journey, past and present.
• Explore the region by linking port life to unexpected cultural institutions, attractions and sites of natural beauty that await you a short journey away.
• Connect Ireland and Wales over the sea, learning about the ties that bind across centuries.

To register, click on the following link: Events – Bofin Consultancy