Enhancing Tourism Experiences

The Hidden Story provides consultancy services to tourism businesses and communities.

Our services are tailored to work with individual businesses and groups at various stages of development, from early stage animation and capacity building through to the development and roll out of strategic plans. Our targeted approach is shaped and driven by the needs of the individual business, network or group to yield maximum benefit.

We believe that engaging tourists through stories is the cornerstone of creating immersive and memorable experiences and we at the Hidden Story can assist tourism providers to deliver an exceptional tourism experience.

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Training - Storytelling in Tourism

Storytelling Training - adopting a 'Find it, Tell it, Sell it' approach and the 'Interpretative Guiding and Storytelling' programme.
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Tourism Destination Development

Activating and supporting groups to define their destinations tourism proposition and create action plans for future development.
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Mentoring Services

Individual on-site story, marketing and business development.
Funding Applications

Funding Applications

Our team is highly experienced in writing strong funding proposals. We work with you through all the necessary steps to develop the strongest business proposal possible.
Research Story Ireland Tourism

Research - What's the Story?

Sourcing and creating stories for attractions and destinations feasibility studies.

Our work includes:

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  • Animation and capacity building with both individual business and groups
  • Supporting attraction/destination design and development
  • Development of tourism strategies and action plans
  • Tailored training programmes
  • Undertaking tourism-related feasibility studies and funding applications
  • Conducting tourism and heritage-based research projects
Our Services

Story Based Tourism

We hold a particular interest and expertise in story based tourism that can help attractions and destinations align to the Ireland’s Ancient East brand promise.

  • Researching and Sourcing appropriate stories
  • Developing themes under relevant brand
  • Structuring and delivering immersive stories
  • Engaging Tourists mentally and emotionally
  • Embedding stories into the visitor experience
  • Animating and dramatising stories
  • Integrating stories with the physical environment
  • Developing sensorial dimension on-site
  • Choreographing the experience
  • Developing appropriate physical interpetation
  • Enhancing marketing through digital storytelling and content
  • Interpreting heritage sites
 
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Siobhán Geoghegan

Siobhán has extensive experience in rural tourism development with both businesses and communities and is an approved Interpret Europe trainer.

Jacqui Doyle

Jacqui has managed many tourism and heritage projects and has researched storytelling in tourism extensively.

Turtle Bunbury

Turtle is a historian and award-winning author with extensive experience in unique stories and presenting them to tourists.

 
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