Hollywood, Los Angeles - the team at Titanic Belfast were delighted to accept a THEA Award for Outstanding Achievement – Visitor Experience Re-envisioned at the ‘Oscars’ of visitor attractions.
The THEA Awards, organised by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), recognise achievement, talent and personal excellence from those who bring incredible experiences to life for people around the world. This is the first time an attraction has won twice in its 30-year history.
Belfast City Council - He sums up its work as bringing “step changes” to Northern Ireland, such as the emergence of a new film and TV industry in the 2000s after Harland & Wolff’s old Paint Hall was transformed into Titanic Studios.
It's among the milestones for Titanic Quarter witnessed by James Eyre since he joined Titanic Quarter Ltd, the company behind the massive seafront development, as a surveyor in 2006.
James, who studied estate management at UIster University, was last week named its new chief executive – the first at the company since a restructuring in 2015.
The Daily Mail - It's on the site of a filming location for Captain America: The First Avenger - and it's a marvel of a place to stay.
Titanic Hotel Liverpool won the Large Hotel of the Year gong at this year's VisitEngland Awards for Excellence. And I can confirm that it was a worthy recipient, with the location's Captain America cameo adding an extra dollop of allure.
Time Out - Liverpool’s Titanic Hotel wins gold at VisitEngland’s Awards for Excellence.
Every year, the tourism body VisitEngland hosts its Awards for Excellence to celebrate the ‘crème de la crème’ of the country’s tourist and hospitality industry.
Last week’s ceremony saw Liverpool’s Titanic Hotel win the gold award for large hotel of the year. It sits in a former warehouse on the city’s Stanley Docks overlooking the River Mersey.
BAM - On a seminal day for Waterford, ground was broken on the North Quays Public Infrastructure Project by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD, Minister for Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport, Eamon Ryan TD and Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD.
Harcourt Developments and the team at Lough Eske Castle are honoured to announce their patronage for the Young Chef Young Waiter Ireland Awards 2023. The YCYW awards have been established since 1979 and launched internationally in 2019 as a global competition open to all young professional waiters and chefs from any background. Promoting hospitality as a career of choice, a profession, and a vocation, in these times of staff shortages across the sector.
Hospitality Ireland - Pat Doherty is something of a legend. The founder of Harcourt Developments, he left school at 14, left home in Donegal for London at the age of 19, and started working in construction. From there, he has built an empire. Along the way, he became friends with Andrew Parker Bowles and was painted by Lucian Freud. Here, he talks to Emily Hourican.
The board of Harcourt Developments is delighted to announce the promotion of Lisa O’Connor as Group Director of Sales and Marketing for the Hotel Collection. Harcourt Developments is one of Ireland’s largest privately owned property companies with over 1500 employees and properties across Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, and Antigua.
Irish Times - Security of tenure and more affordable prices allow families to look to their future with greater confidence
With a three-year-old daughter in a small flat, and a landlord about to sell the building, Bernardo Mba Mabaha and his partner Teresa Ebang really needed to find somewhere new to live.
“We had been looking since last November, but it had not been going well,”
Ulster University has bestowed an honorary Doctor of Science degree on Harcourt chairman Pat Doherty OBE in recognition of his “outstanding commitment to the economic and cultural development of the whole of Ireland”.
At a formal investiture ceremony in Saint Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast ten individuals comprising journalists, playwrights, leaders, and humanitarians received honorary doctorates by the internationally renowned artist Dr Colin Davidson.
We are delighted that Titanic Belfast Chief Executive Judith Owens has received an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours for services to Tourism.
Judith was named Chief Executive of Titanic Belfast in December 2017, following on from her time as Director of Operations and Deputy CEO since opening in 2012.
Harcourt is working with all our teams spread across the globe to bring some health and wellbeing tips for National Workplace Wellbeing Day 2020. We understand that this year has presented many challenges and 2020 differs tremendously to previous years.
We want to mark this important date by reaching out and sharing useful activities and advice to offer small but positive distractions to the lives of our valued team members
London based developer Pat Doherty was honoured in his hometown of Buncrana in Co. Donegal on Friday night last when he was awarded the Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Award for his consistent dedication to the successful development of business and the creation of employment.
“Pat’s success in business has been well documented” said Cllr. Nicholas Crossan of Donegal County Council “but what is remarkable about Pat is his desire to ensure that his success is Donegal’s success.
“In the last 10 years alone Pat has invested in some of the country’s most iconic businesses including the Donegal Lough Eske Castle and the Titanic Quarter in Belfast and currently employs over 500 people in Donegal alone, generating more than €100 million in the local economy”.
Patrick Joseph Doherty, chairman and founder of Harcourt Developments, is among the figures to have been newly appointed to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list.
Mr. Doherty has been recognised for “services to the Transformation of the Titanic Quarter Site, Belfast.”
Harcourt recently hosted Sir Paul McCartney, James Corden and the Late Late Show production crew at the Titanic Hotel while they were in Liverpool filming the latest episode of Carpool Karaoke.
Described as 'one of the most extraordinary interviews he's ever done', James Corden spent a special day with Paul McCartney exploring the city of Paul's youth, visiting his childhood home where he wrote music with John Lennon, performing songs in a local pub and of course driving around singing a few of Paul's biggest hits.
Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern and George Mitchell were the guests of honour at a special Co-operation Ireland event organised by the charity’s chairman Christopher Moran to mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of The Agreement. Hosted by Pat Doherty at Titanic Hotel Belfast on Tuesday, April 10, the event brought together business leaders and supporters of the peace building charity.
Harcourt were honoured to welcome Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle to Titanic Belfast on their first official engagement to Northern Ireland.
The couple visited Titanic Belfast on 23rd March, where staff, locals and visitors from across the globe caught a glimpse of the couple ahead of their wedding in May.
Leinster Express - Laois Shopping Centre Manager Kevin Doyle has come runner up in the Manager of the Year at the Sceptre Awards 2017.
Mr Doyle was nominated and shortlisted for the award which he was presented with in Dorchester in London on Tuesday, June 20.
“I am thrilled, it is a great honour to be recognised I have never witnessed my parents as proud, my wife Brenda and son Brian are proud of me too,” Mr Doyle said.
The Sceptre Awards recognise best practice and the best people in the shopping centre industry.
Billionaire Edouard Carmignac is one of France's richest men, and his €50bn company, Carmignac Gestion, is now the second-largest holder of Irish bonds after Michael Hasenstab at Franklin Templeton.
The Rolling Stones played a private gig for his top clients recently and he plays polo where he hangs out with Prince Harry and Harcourt Developments' Pat Doherty...
BBeyond Magazine - Pat Doherty, the man who built Harcourt Developments, is not a high profile tycoon. The unprepossessing Irishman is all about substance rather than style - his younger peers in the property developments business have much to learn from him.
He rarely, if ever, gives interviews because he doesn’t need to...
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