Tourism: Ulster’s many attractions brought to book in prestigious travel guide

Despite the fact that few people are travelling, the influential Fodor’s Essential Ireland travel guide, which includes for the first time a substantial new section on Northern Ireland along with a separate chapter on Belfast, has just been published for 2021.

One of those who works for the guide, travel writer Paul Clements, says that although it is ironic to bring out a guidebook in the midst of a pandemic, he believes that holidaymakers will still want to plan for the future.

“For 15 years I have updated and revised information for Fodor’s – a widely respected American travel guide and one of the longest established in a crowded field.