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With the Sky Sports, Channel 7 in Australia and GAAgo deals the GAA claim to be promoting the GAA abroad. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/07/2014 13:42:02 1613147 Link 0 |
As you say, it's because Bord Fáilte and the GAA don't make any effort to market our games towards foreign tourists. In the US, baseball, basketball and hockey are marketed as part of the American experience, which is why lots of tourists go to games (despite the latter two often being a lot more expensive to attend than gaelic games). Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 03/07/2014 15:35:29 1613228 Link 0 |
An honourable exception to this seems to be the Experience Gaelic Games initiative run out in Na Fianna GAA club in Dublin, but as I far as I can see this is a project run by the club more than HQ. It gets overwhelmingly excellent reviews on Trip Advisor: Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 03/07/2014 15:39:00 1613231 Link 0 |
We get lots of seasonal supporters that attend games at Croke park, usually at the height of the tourist season in August, purely out of curiosity more than anything else, we like to call them the Dubs! brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 03/07/2014 15:57:41 1613244 Link 0 |
Yeah Brend, we usually see and hear people with funny accents about twice a summer in Dublin...... JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 03/07/2014 16:10:38 1613253 Link 0 |
Yeah, us Dubs just need to turn up, lift the cup and go!.....and let the organisation fight among itself for the cash we throw to it! Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 03/07/2014 16:13:11 1613254 Link 0 |
Never mind the tourists why are there not more of the 'armchair fans' that come out of nowhere every September looking for tickets to support 'their' teams in the AI finals not going to more games throughout the summer? supporter (Donegal) - Posts: 205 - 03/07/2014 16:21:34 1613261 Link 0 |
The craic is too good in Doolin?? Miler (Mayo) - Posts: 1015 - 03/07/2014 16:27:08 1613268 Link 0 |
Expense, lack of understanding. Hurling would be a defo for someone who had never been at a game. Football much less so. Unless you were raised watching it, it probably is not as easy on the eye as most other sports. Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3830 - 03/07/2014 16:46:46 1613282 Link 0 |
Let the GAA and Discover Ireland promote the games first and tourists can decide then if it's too expensive. Would probably cost them a lot less than the package deal night out listening to so-called trad music. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/07/2014 16:53:20 1613287 Link 0 |
There's a new route for the Dublin sight seeing tour than encorporates Croke Park. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13692 - 03/07/2014 17:08:32 1613299 Link 0 |
When I go to America why do I want to go see NFL,MLB,NHL and NBA games? well there are a lod of reasons, like internationally recognised stars, movies which promote them, the rich history which even at this side of the atlantic we have an affinity towards and of course cheerleaders. the cheerleaders being the best reason, Fishermantom (Limerick) - Posts: 569 - 03/07/2014 17:58:56 1613314 Link 0 |
Because it is too expensive for them full stop. GAA needs to stop kids going into games first of all. moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1075 - 03/07/2014 20:01:20 1613351 Link 0 |
Sure they might understand the games better if they actually attended the games rather than just watching them live on TV in the US or Australia.I'd love to go to an NFL game but I'd be confused by many of the rules and the plays.I know there are foreign visitors going to games but if Discover Ireland and the GAA got their act together their numbers would increase. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/07/2014 20:18:47 1613355 Link 0 |
Stop kids going into games but bring in tourists instead ??????? That will do a lot for the future of our game ridiculous statement lilywhite28 (Kildare) - Posts: 68 - 03/07/2014 20:19:04 1613356 Link 0 |
Outside of Croke Park, are any of our stadiums really suitable for a tourist experience? I mean, I love Thurles, but its by no means a modern stadium, certainly lacking the facilities that tourists from the USA, Japan, Britain, Germany etc would be used to in their stadia. If you were on your holliers some place, and you had to think of the best way to spend your time, would you chose to spend to spend a few hours sitting in a cramped seat, on a stand with little or no roofing (with a 60% chance of rain), or in a terrace with drunken kids acting the maggot, with third world toilet facilities? Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 03/07/2014 20:24:02 1613359 Link 0 |
Fishermantom, 'sfunny I was going to post that attending a local club game would be a much more authentic experience than Magic Mr. Peter McKenna's Noise'n'Flash Fest an tseabhac (Kerry) - Posts: 441 - 03/07/2014 20:54:41 1613373 Link 0 |
Sure they might understand the games better if they actually attended the games rather than just watching them live on TV in the US or Australia.I'd love to go to an NFL game but I'd be confused by many of the rules and the plays.I know there are foreign visitors going to games but if Discover Ireland and the GAA got their act together their numbers would increase. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/07/2014 21:18:52 1613393 Link 0 |
Maybe it is expensive and maybe the seats aren't so comfy and the coffee ain't as good as your used to. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/07/2014 21:38:39 1613410 Link 0 |
have to disagree hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/07/2014 09:26:45 1613462 Link 0 |