What will Waterford’s visitor attraction of scale be?

Updates were provided this week on plans for a ‘visitor attraction of scale’ in Waterford.

Last March, Failte Ireland unveiled their intentions to develop an attraction of scale at the north side of the river in Waterford City.

The tourism body indicated that the attraction would potentially become a transformative project for tourism not just in Waterford, but the entire south east region.

To commence the project, Waterford Council entered a process with Fáilte Ireland through which a strategic assessment report would be produced.

Chief Executive of Waterford Council, Sean McKeown, provided updates on this process last week.

He said, “There are two reports Fáilte Ireland are concerned with, one is if an attraction of scale came to Waterford where exactly it should be located. It’s something very technical and there will be a range of criteria used to decide the location.

“The second thing is what should an attraction of scale should be? Should it be simply an Eiffel Tower or Guardian of the North kind of attraction where it becomes a tourist attraction in itself? Or should it be an attraction that a footfall of people can go into it?

“There is a report on that that we haven’t seen yet.” 

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