PRESS RELEASE
Kerry Adventure Company ‘Outdoors Ireland’ have just achieved a gold award for environmental awareness and green thinking.
Outdoors Ireland were part of a pilot project, run in Kerry in association with Failte Ireland, aimed at ‘greening’ tourism businesses, from guest houses to adventure companies, and were part of approximately fifty businesses who completed their certification process earlier this month.
‘We’re very lucky to be the first adventure company in Ireland to have received a gold award for green awareness’ says Nathan Kingerlee, manager of Outdoors Ireland. ‘Hopefully it’s one more thing that will help attract adventure tourists to Killarney over the coming months and years.’
The current green initiative Outdoors Ireland are focusing on over the summer months is ‘Bring Back 2’.
‘We’re out in Kerry’s mountains, lakes and cliff-tops a huge amount over the summer’ explains Kingerlee. ‘The objective each time we go outdoors is to bring back two extra items of litter that we may come across, from a plastic bag to an apple core. If we’ve a group of eight people climbing Carrauntoohil with a guide; that’s potentially eighteen extra pieces of litter being carried off the mountains! We’d like to play our part in making a difference to Killarney’s outdoors, which has to be one of Ireland’s greatest natural resources.’
Kerry Adventure Company ‘Outdoors Ireland’ have just achieved a gold award for environmental awareness and green thinking.
Outdoors Ireland were part of a pilot project, run in Kerry in association with Failte Ireland, aimed at ‘greening’ tourism businesses, from guest houses to adventure companies, and were part of approximately fifty businesses who completed their certification process earlier this month.
‘We’re very lucky to be the first adventure company in Ireland to have received a gold award for green awareness’ says Nathan Kingerlee, manager of Outdoors Ireland. ‘Hopefully it’s one more thing that will help attract adventure tourists to Killarney over the coming months and years.’
The current green initiative Outdoors Ireland are focusing on over the summer months is ‘Bring Back 2’.
‘We’re out in Kerry’s mountains, lakes and cliff-tops a huge amount over the summer’ explains Kingerlee. ‘The objective each time we go outdoors is to bring back two extra items of litter that we may come across, from a plastic bag to an apple core. If we’ve a group of eight people climbing Carrauntoohil with a guide; that’s potentially eighteen extra pieces of litter being carried off the mountains! We’d like to play our part in making a difference to Killarney’s outdoors, which has to be one of Ireland’s greatest natural resources.’
-
For More Details Contact:
+353 (0) 86 860 45 63
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment