Travel Extra is a monthly newspaper dedicated to the Travel industry in Ireland. It features consumer and industry travel, aviation, cruise and ferry news and worldwide destination reviews.

The newspaper was founded in 1995 by Gerry O'Hare, former travel correspondent of The Irish Press

The Irish Press

The Irish Press was an Irish national daily newspaper published by Irish Press plc between 5 September 1931 and 25 May 1995.-Foundation:...

, which had closed suddenly in May 1995, and Tony Barry, former travel editor of the Evening Herald

Evening Herald

The Evening Herald is a mid-market tabloid evening newspaper published in Dublin, Ireland by Independent News & Media. It is published Monday-Saturday, and has three editions — City Edition, City Final Edition and National Edition...

, with the assistance of Anne Cadwallader and John Butterly. Since 2002 it has been owned by the Business Exhibitions Group and edited by Eoghan Corry

Eoghan Corry

Eoghan Corry is an Irish columnist, travel writer, author of sports history, and founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland. Since 2002 he has edited Ireland's biggest circulation travel publication, Travel Extra, and is a regular commentator on...

, who had formerly been travel editor of The Irish Press and Evening News.

Themes

Each of the ten issues annually is themed

• February - Holiday World travel show in Dublin
• March – Awards special plus Middle East, Shoulder season destinations, golf, spa and wellness
• April – Summer Cruise plus France and Spain special
• May – Australasia plus Attractions Tickets and Theme and Leisure Parks
• June – The USA issue plus Citybreaks and Rivercruise;
• July/August – Canaries plus wintersun holidays
• September – Accommodation/Dynamic Packaging plus Long Haul holidays
• October – Ski plus WTM Preview plus American winter holidays
• November - Winter Cruise /All Inclusive plus ITAA Preview Mauritius, Caribbean and Mexico
• December/January – Weddings & Honeymoons: summer 2012 plus syndicates and conferences

Travel Extra Travel Writer Awards

Travel Extra also organise an annual awards cememony for the Irish Travel Writer of the Year, with the aim of raising the standard of travel writing across the print and broadcast media in Ireland. The ceremony is sponsored by the Spanish Tourist Board

Tourism in Spain

Tourism in Spain was developed during the last years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, when the country became a popular place for summer holidays, especially for tourists from the British Isles, France, Central Europe and Scandinavia. In 2007, Spain became the second most visited country of the...

 and the individual prizes sponsored by Cassidy Travel, Fáille Ireland, Falcon Holidays

TUI AG

TUI AG is a German multinational travel and tourism company headquartered in Hanover. Until 2001 it was an industrial and transportation company named Preussag AG, which in the mid-1990s decided to reinvent itself as a tourism, shipping, and logistics company...

, Northern Ireland Tourist Board

Northern Ireland Tourist Board

The Northern Ireland Tourist Board is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment. Its primary objective is to promote Northern Ireland as a tourist destination....

, Sunway, and Thomas Cook Group

Thomas Cook Group

Thomas Cook Group plc is a travel company created on 19 June, 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel Group plc. At flotation on the London Stock Exchange 52% of the shares in the new company were held by the German mail order and department store corporation Arcandor and 48% owned by...

. Previous winners of the overall Irish Travel Writer of the Year include Cleo Murphy (2002), Pól Ó Conghaile (2003 and 2004), Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn Thomas is an Irish television presenter from Carlow. She does be doing the holiday programme on RTÉ. Now she does a Winning Streak every week with Marty Whelan...

 (2005), Muriel Bolger (2006), Philip Nolan (2007), Pól Ó Conghaile (2008), Mark Evans (2009), and Philip Nolan (2010).

Three writers have been inducted into the Travel Extra Travel Writing Hall of Fame, Paddy Dignam, Tony Barry and John Healy.

Contributors to Travel Extra include Carmel Higgins, Eanna Brophy, Anne Cadwallader, Marie Carberry, Lisa Chalfa, Charlie Collins

Charlie Collins

Charlie Collins is a footballer of Irish descent playing as a striker for Milton Keynes Dons.He made his debut for MK Dons on 1 May 2010 in the Football League One clash with Brighton & Hove Albion at the Stadium:mk which ended in 0–0 draw.On 8 November 2011, Collins featured as a trialis in a...

, Geraldine Grennan, Sharon Hall, Stephen Houston, Paul Kilduff, Marisa Mackle, Cauvery Madhavan, Sean Mannion, Ida Milne, Catherine Murphy, Cleo Murphy, Ailbhe Ó Corráin and Roxanne Parker.

External links

• Travel Extra 2012 issues January Destinations Issue
• Travel Extra 2011 issues January Destinations Issue, February Holiday World Issue,March awards issue, Apr 2011 Cruise Europe issue May 2011 Australia & Theme Parks issue June 2011 USA issue, July 2011 Wintersun Issue September 2011 ski preview issue October 2011 Winter Cruise issue November 2011 Wedding & Honeymoon Issue

• Travel Extra website, on Facebook and Twitter