32 SPANISH TOURIST BOARD AT TITANIC Bienvenido a mis amigos españoles!
BELFAST Holiday World is always my key occasion for meeting old friends in the international Travel Trade, writes regular columnist JOHN TREW. (See Trew’s Travels, Page 14). Favourite events of the pre-Show period for Travel Journalists and Travel Trade alike are the celebratory meals hosted by the Spanish Tourist Board (STB) the day before.
I look forward to the Media Lunch and never miss it. Last year I was hospitalised with pneumonia in early January. However, through great NHS nursing, firm determination (plus two weeks of antibiotics!) I recovered in time to reach the splendid Private Suite on the panoramic Sixth Floor of TITANIC. the world-beating attraction next door to the Show’s latest venue. I pointed out Sydenham where I grew up, through the East Belfast window, to my particular friend PACO GUTIERREZ — or to give him his proper name, Francisco Jose Garcia Gutierrez of
the STB London Office. He was delighted that he had fruitful discussions with Titanic chefs again this year to offer a menu that was truly appropriate to the occasion — a fusion of Spanish inspiration and Northern Irish culinary skills and local produce. Here’s my translation of the best-ever menu : Starters — Smoked Salmon smoked with Bushmills whiskey barrels OR Spanish meatballs with chorizo in a piquant red sauce; Soup — yellow lentil and chicken soup with smoked bacon. Mains —Paella with chicken, Portavogie Prawns, cockles and mussels and peppers OR Shoulder of Lamb, potatoes, carrots and carmellised onions. Desserts — Cheesecake with new season’s rhubarb OR White Star Line trifle ( as served on Titanic). The Spanish Tourist Board hosted the local Travel Trade in the evening at Titanic Belfast, when the same fusion of Spanish and Northern Ireland culinary delights was enjoyed by more than 50 guests.
February 2018 Travel News
TREWLY SPANISH: Northern Ireland Travel News columnist John Trew is in the back row of the photo (far left) with Agustin Garcia (Spanish Tourist Office), Cristina Cunchillos (Tenerife), Paco Gutierrez (STB); Front row, Rosa Ferrer (Castellón), Natalia Bel (Salou) and Ana Bermúdez (STB) at the annual lunch for the Press in Titanic Belfast prior to Holiday World (see story far left)
Christina Cunchillos, Tenerife Tourism Corporation, Mitchell Hawes, Norwegian Air, Michelle, Francis Kelly, Laffin Travel and Mark Hopper, PortAventura
Paco Gutierrez, Spanish Tourist Board, Pere Granados Carrillo, Mayor of Salou, Ana Bermudez, STB, Natalia Bel, Salou Tourist Board, and Agustin Garcia, STB
Agustin Garcia, Spanish Tourist Board, Sandra Corkin, Oasis Travel, Doreen McKenzie, ABTA and Paco Gutierrez, STB
Agustin Garcia, Spanish Tourist Board, Rosa Ferrer, Castellon Tourist Office, Pere Granados Carrillo, Major of Salou, Ana Bermudez, STB, Mark Hopper, Port Aventura, Natalia Bel, Salou Tourist Board, Ainhoa Cobo, Andalucia, Christina Cunchillos, Tenerife Tourism and Paco Gutierrez, STB
RIGHT: Terence and Terry Murphy, Terra
Travel, Neil Walker and Liz Dinsmore, Reliable Travel and Agustin
Garcia, Spanish Tourist Board
BELOW: Margaret Hull, Kathryn Hamilton, Roisin Hammill and Sarah Murdock,TUI Lisburn, with Christina Cunchillos, Tenerife Tourism Corporation
ABOVE: Andrew Adair of Reliable Travel and Pere Granados Carrillo, Major of Salou
Tracie Duffy, Crumlin Travel and Mark Hopper, PortAventura
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