A string of new hotel developments are popping up across Ireland and Northern Ireland to meet a growing demand from tourists, according to Tourism Ireland.
Among them is the widely publicised Titanic Hotel Belfast which opens its doors in the Northern Ireland capital this month. Billed as the world’s most authentic Titanic-themed inn, itwill occupy the former Harland & Wolff headquarters, where the historic vessel was conceived and executed in the early 1900s.
The hotel even has the same tiles that lined the Titanic’s swimming pool. The luxury hotel will boast 119 rooms with views of Belfast’s rich shipbuilding history from Harland & Wolff cranes in the east to Titanic Belfast and the slipways to the west.
John Doherty, group creative director at Harcourt Developments, said the hotel would tell the story of the people who made the local ship building industry in a way that no other destination could.
