Guinness Storehouse hoping 全世界の award will 配達する 訪問者 boon in 2024
A 主要な Dublin tourist attraction freshly 栄冠を与えるd the world’s best 訪問者 experience is hoping the 全世界の accolade, 補助装置d by a David Beckham 上げる, can 運動 it to new 高さs in 2024.
The Guinness Storehouse, which took away the 最高の，を越す prize at the World Travel Awards earlier in December, is 始める，決める to welcome more than 1.4 million 訪問者s this year.
Perhaps the most famous of those were David Beckham and his son Cruz who paid a visit in February, 株ing the experience with their tens of millions of 連合させるd Instagram 信奉者s.
Storehouse managing director Catherine Toolan said winning the world’s 主要な tourist attraction accolade was an 業績／成就 two １０年間s in the making.
“The Guinness Storehouse has been in this 場所 and open as a 訪問者 experience and a brand experience for 23 years now and throughout that 23 years we continued to 投資する in creating a world-class experience,” she said.
“The World Travel Awards is really the Oscars of the travel 産業. It’s an award that’s been going on for 30 years.
” We have won Europe’s 主要な experience in 2015 and also the World Travel Award for the 主要な beer 小旅行する experience.
“But this year was the pinnacle by winning the world’s 主要な 小旅行する experience, competing against the likes of the Taj Mahal, the Ferrari experience (in Abu Dhabi), the 広大な／多数の／重要な 塀で囲む of 中国 and the Walt Disney 訴える手段／行楽地 in Florida.
“I’m so proud of the team. It’s a brilliant award for us. And it’s a brilliant award for the city 同様に and for 観光旅行，事業 in Ireland.”
David and Cruz Beckham’s visit （機の）カム five months after US basketball 星／主役にする Steph Curry also 小旅行するd the Storehouse, which is on the 場所／位置 of Guinness’s famous St James’s Gate brewery in Dublin.
In previous years, Tom 巡航する and the Prince and Princess of むちの跡s, William and Catherine, have also visited.
Ms Toolan said the （危険などに）さらす 生成するd by high-profile 訪問者s tangibly 上げるs 約束／交戦 and 利益／興味 in the Storehouse online.
People walk Past the Guinness 蓄える／店 House in Dublin. Picture date: Sunday December 24, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story IRISH Storehouse . Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Referring to the Beckhams’ Instagram 地位，任命するs, she 追加するd: “When they 地位，任命する something like that to their 信奉者s, we do see, you know, a lot more 約束／交戦 and indeed we would have a lot of 訪問者s asking us or coming in and 説 ‘Where did David Beckham pull his pint?’”
The centre has also recently 拡大するd its 申し込む／申し出ing to host live music events, with 業績／成果s from Kelis, Bicep, Annie Mac and Dermot Kennedy の中で others.
Working with Ireland’s Autism Charity, AsIAm, the Storehouse also 安全な・保証するd 公式の／役人 accreditation in 2023 as an autism and neuro-相違する friendly 発生地.
On the first Wednesday of every month it now hosts 献身的な sensory friendly experience days.
The 率先 is 提携させるd with the 発生地’s wider 環境の, social and 法人組織の／企業の governance (ESG) goals.
“Some of the 率先s that we have in place from that 視野 are that we have now 100% renewable energy in the building, we have a 無 to landfill (政策), and we’re working with Diageo and indeed all our partners to become 逮捕する 炭素 中立の by 2030, which is a really lofty goal, but one we’re really 焦点（を合わせる）d on,” 追加するd Ms Toolan.
Guinness 蓄える／店 House CEO Catherine Toolan. P icture date: Sunday December 24, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story IRISH Storehouse . Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Looking 今後 to 2024, the Storehouse boss paid 尊敬の印 to the 600-strong team of 核心 労働者s and partners that help operate the attraction.
“It takes a village to run a brand experience like this, from the team that manage our 倉庫／問屋, the team that manage our 小売 蓄える／店, to the team that welcome 訪問者s every 選び出す／独身 day,” she said.
“I feel so 特権d to have such amazing people as part of that and they make the difference. And they give that ‘cead mile failte’ (one hundred thousand welcomes) and that warm welcome to our 訪問者s every day.
“So winning awards is really special, but 存在 able to come into a building and 存在 the custodian of the 264-year, almost 265-year, Guinness history and working with the team that I work with every day, it’s just such a 特権.”
