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We have just completed the Northern Ireland – Embrace a Giant Spirit Experience Development Toolkit for Tourism Northern Ireland . This is the last in a suite of attractive resources for the launch and run-out of this important new experience brand. High quality, beautifully designed materials have been vital throughout the development and run-out of […]

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Susan writes: The Local Perspectives on Different Histories: an open exchange for best practices in Memory Work seminar brought together extraordinary people, mainly from central and eastern Europe. Being with them was an inspiration. I was there, as a heritage interpreter, to help the group consider the future of the personal memories and how memories […]

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Now it can be told. For almost all of this year we have been working under wraps on the next big thing for tourism in Northern Ireland, a new experience brand for the next ten years. On 4th November 2019, those wraps were pulled off at the World Travel Market in London.  Northern Ireland – […]

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IAE Storytelling Toolkit

Towards the end of last year, we were appointed by Fáilte Ireland as heritage interpretation and visitor experience mentors to 25 attractions in Ireland’s Ancient East. The attractions had all been awarded capital grants for new interpretation, primarily for international audiences.  This is part of running out Ireland’s Ancient East, Ireland’s latest major tourism proposition. […]

New Forest Connects training programme

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We have loved helping to deliver the training element of the Interpretation Plan that we wrote for the New Forest: Our Past, Our Future Landscape Partnership. The Plan identified modern communication skills as essential to conservation bodies, particularly in a much-visited National Park in densely populated southern England. It proposed a diverse training programme with […]

Welcoming Karolina Želvė to TellTale

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Karolina standing on a rocky outcrop with views over the Peak District stretching into the far distance

We are delighted to be hosting Karolina Želvė from Lithuania at the TellTale office. She is spending two weeks with us, studying how an independent heritage interpretation and visitor experience consultancy works.  She has recently set up a similar enterprise in Lithuania. Having met us when we visited Kaunas at the end of last year, Karolina asked to […]

The English National Park Experience Collection

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Covers of three English National Park Experience Development Frameworks

We have just delivered the Experience Development Frameworks for the English National Park Experience Collection, a new international tourism proposition for England’s National Parks. These fine looking documents (designed once again by our good friends at The Way) set the direction for the Experience Collection which will be launched internationally later this year. There are nine […]

New Toolkit – Sharing the Wild Heart of Ireland

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  As our final contribution to the Tourism Interpretation Masterplan for Ireland’s National Parks, we have just completed a new toolkit.  Sharing the Wild Heart of Ireland: Interpretation guidelines for Ireland’s National Parks is an internal document for National Park staff in the six National Parks. It gives step-by-step advice on how to use the national and […]

Tourism Interpretation Frameworks for Ireland’s National Parks

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  It’s been a lot of work and we are delighted with the final versions of the Tourism Interpretation Frameworks for Ireland’s National Parks. This is TellTale’s main contribution to a major Tourism Interpretation Masterplan for the National Parks that we produced in partnership with SLR Consulting, with design by The Way. The Tourism Interpretation Frameworks […]

Minister praises new Storytelling Interpretation Toolkit for Ireland’s Ancient East

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It is exciting to see top level endorsement of the new Storytelling Interpretation Toolkit that we produced for Ireland’s Ancient East.  It is not every day that a government minister talks about heritage interpretation – let alone about a TellTale project!   The Irish Minister of State for Tourism, Patrick O’Donovan said: “Bringing history alive is […]