Dear members of communities

2 years after launching this site, I come back to you now with great news for the future:

Kerry as well as Ireland are in a catastrophic economic situation. As I told you 2 years ago, this region is on the wrong way. I tried to promote this region as a prime destination on different target markets, I tried to persuade different state agents to change their policies and markets, without support at all.  I opened an activity center in the Marina of Cahersiveen, to get an idea about the situation. Even from communities, there was no support at all. Market is still completely down. 

Different people told me, that it was a great season. What I can say about this: Don't get blinded with the amount of people we had over this season. Most of them were Irish citizen, who decided not to leave the country. It was a nice x-tra. But this is not, what the Irish economy needs. We need foreign tourists to come here and to spend superb holidays. Number of German, French and even English tourists are down. I still believe, that this region isn't promoted on the right way on the right place in the right language. Lot's of efforts have been done over the last 2 years in design of sites, but not in language selection. Automatic translation services aren't working in matters of rankings.

2 years ago, I proposed to create a food quality label for this region. Excellent smoked salmon, excellent chocolate, fantastic honey, some excellent local cheese makers, the superb Kerry lamb, the amount of shell fish, fish, scallops, mussels, etc.etc. There is a great opportunity to develop this. Same as in lots of different regions in France, (Pyrenees, Alps, Cantal, Bretagne, Normandie, Pas-de-Calais etc.etc.), small regions have to fight to survive. Gastronomy is a big thing to develop. But here again, people weren't listening.

I invite you now to have a look on the following site: http://www.restaurants-guide4u.com 

This site is one of the leading on-line gastronomy sites in the world.

This site allows:

1) people who want to go to holiday somewhere in Europe, to get an idea about where to get serious food

2) for registered members of the site, and even simply listed members, to get better known 

3) for members of the site, to get a very precise overview, where to get high quality food products  in view to improve their own business

4) for food producers in small regions like ours, to get known on an international level and to market actively their products (see on-line business opportunities, see creating jobs in increasing business)

5) for people, to get informations about food events (this allows small regions like ours, to attract people in creating events and to market it on international level, a very interesting way to attract tourists)

6) for people, to get superb information about wines or wine producers all over the world

7) for registered members, to change their own page themselves, for example, in editing day menus, special events, describing their products, direct links to their own sites,  adding some recipies from their chef, to get reviews from their customers, to get bookmarked as favourites, all this reflecting to their restaurants.

8) a great opportunity for pubs with food and music evenings, to get known

The structure of this site is online now, world-wide. Lots of direct job creations all over Europe within the next 2 years. For Ireland, 12 job creations will be done over the next few month as sales representatives.

2 representatives for Dublin

1 representative for Cork

1 representative for Galway/Clare

1 representative for Kerry/Limerick

1 representative for Kildare/Meath

1 representative for Louth/Monaghan/Cavan

1 representative for Donegal/Leitrim/Sligo

1 representative for Waterford/Tipperary/Kilkenny

1 representative for Wexford/Wicklow/Carlow

1 representative for Laois/Offaly/Westmeath

1 representative for Mayo/Roscommom/Longford

As this international site is running in 3 languages at least, it would be beneficial to have a serious knowledge in English, French and German.

CV and details to:  yves.clees@gmail.com (select manually)

This gets the most important and the biggest gastronomy site in the world. At the moment, around 130000 restaurants are listed, around 21000 wineyards and over 30000 food procers.

This site will produce lots of job creations within the next few years in small local areas, if done correctly. For small regions, this site is the door to the world.

I hope, you'll now understand, what I mean.