myguideIreland

myguideIreland (originally 1 2 Travel) was founded when Conor B. Buckley, Conor Buckley (no relation) and Cormac O'Neill returned to Ireland after four years working and studying in the United States. They set off on their return from Philadelphia, via a round the world trip booked through a travel agent in San Francisco, whom they had found on the Internet. Realising the potential for travel services over the Internet, the three set up an on-line travel company, on their return home, selling the country they knew and loved - Ireland. On 4th September 1998, Conor B, Conor and Cormac formed a limited company. In May 1999 www.myguideIreland.com went live and myguideIreland made its first sale to a honeymooning couple from American and the myguideIreland Dream Vacation was born. In 2000 myguideIreland launched websites for the British, German, Canadian and Irish markets, which were followed in 2001 with the launch of websites targeting the Japanese and French markets. In 2000 myguideIreland appointed Mr. Dan Byrne as chairman of the board and Mr. Alf Smiddy and Mr. Roddy Feely as non executive directors. Dan spent much of his career at Apple and rose to Managing Director of Apple Europe, Alf is currently Managing Director of Beamish & Crawford, a large brewing company in Ireland, and Roddy played a key role in the Irish Tourist Board during his 40-year tenure. With the vision and experience of its directors and the drive and enthusiasm of its employees, myguideIreland achieved over IR£1 Million in sales in their first full trading year. In 2004 myguideIreland established a sister company in Britain - 'myguideBritain' to emulate the success of its Irish operations and to offer Guests who had already travelled with myguideIreland to Ireland, an option for customized vacations to the UK. myguideBritain is now in it's third successful year of operations. Over the last 8 years myguideIreland has experienced huge growth with 50% or greater year on year and the company now employs over 50 people. myguideIreland expect to bring over 15,000 Guests into Ireland in 2007, a prospect that the company is extremely excited about!