Stage Set for Dazzling Return of 28th Holiday World Show Belfast in 2022

For almost three decades the January show has fired the official starting gun for the start of the holiday season.

Release time : 2021-01-13 09:26:34

source : Nitravelnews

For almost three decades the January show has fired the official starting gun for the start of the holiday season. It’s been a key event for Northern Ireland’s home-based travel sector, and for the myriad of national and international businesses which flock to Belfast each year to showcase a world of opportunities.

Unfortunately, this year, the Belfast Holiday World Show will not take place, but the good news is that Northern Ireland’s longstanding and much-loved festival of travel and tourism will be back in January 2022, for its 28th year, running over the long weekend of 21 - 23 January at TEC, Belfast.

Bigger, better and more welcome than ever and ready to showcase a world of travel opportunities.

Launched as a mini trade show in the ‘Threepenny Bit’ conference rooms of the King’s Hall in the midst of The Troubles, the show has steadily grown in significance and popularity. It relocated in recent years to the TEC in Belfast’s vibrant Titanic Quarter, Holiday World where it showcased confidence and commercial animation as well as providing a fun-filled event to launch Belfast’s annual events calendar.

The deferral of the twenty-eighth show until 2022 in line with COVID-19 guidance was undoubtedly a disappointment for the family-run business behind the event, but it was very much a case of ‘safety first’, coupled with a recognition of what the travel trade actually needs from its biggest and most important ‘shop window’.

Holiday World CEO Maria Hourican says: “After a totally unprecedented year when leisure travel came to an almost complete standstill right across the world, recovery will of course take time. It may be some time too before large scale gatherings such as our major shows can take place again so, with the full backing of the trade, we’re pouring all our enthusiasm and creative planning into a mega show designed to get 2022 off to a dazzling start, for