Dublin to copy Limerick’s street ambasador success
Yesterday was the last day of work for the ten street ambasadors in Limerick city, who were employed to assist visitors to the city to find what they were looking for.
In the three months duration of the project, our street ambassadors helped 7,500 people from 37 different countries get to where they wanted to go.
Now the idea has caught the imagination of the heads at the Merchants Quay Project in Dublin. Speaking to the Irish Independent, MQP spokesman Colm Folen said ”
I was very impressed with the professionalism of the Limerick street ambassadors after spending a day going around with them.
“This is a project that is badly needed in Dublin to help tourists who we see wandering lost around the city centre. It could be replicated in every city and town around the country”
MQP hope to obtain funding from Failte Ireland and the Business Improvement Districts Scheme for the street ambassador scheme.
The pilot scheme, which ran in Limerick this summer, was headed by the Limerick Co-Ordination Office, and half of the funding came from the European Commission.
Very nice, at least now they can pay someone in Dublin to tell tourists that the Liffey boardwalk is a no-go area full of drug dealers and junkies.