Last week Galway 2020 CEO Hannah Kiely and her team attended Fáilte Ireland’s two-day global trade event Meitheal and met 65 international tourist buyers to promote Galway as the European Capital of Culture in 2020. Tour operators were very enthusiastic about the fact that the majority of the Galway 2020 programme will be free. Galway 2020 also offers a chance to extend the region’s tourist season across the whole year.