From today there are exactly 500 days to go until the magnificent Tallships Festival returns to Waterford in June 2011 and those beautiful ships will grace our Quays once more. The website is now up and running at http://www.waterfordtallships.ie
There's a countdown timer there and the fact that the Christian Radich is the first Tallship already confirmed to attend at the festival.
The city that the festival will return to should be a different one that it attended in 2005 when they first visited here. The new Waterford Crystal factory and showrooms will be up and running on the Mall and a number of other developments with museums, Viking ships and other fantastic elements should all be in place.
The fact that the festival will fall on a weekend next year should also ensure even more visitors than the 500,000 people who came to Waterford for the event last time and I know that Des Whelan and his team are already working flat out to make the next festival even bigger and better than that magical one in 2005 - no small feat!
One thing we have as a city - which is a wonderful thing in these really really difficult times - is that we have so much to look forward to. We have to hope that all of these things will serve as a catalyst for lots more tourism development and as a result, job creation.
We are out there, doing it for ourselves. Can you do anything to help?
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