2022-2032 Vistitor Experience Development Plan

Ulster American Folk Park The vision is for the Ulster American Folk Park to be an international cultural heritage visitor attraction, offering the embarkation point for a great, transformative journey, sharing the remarkable lives of Ulster people who helped to shape a NewWorld. The proposal will create a dramatic and immersive visitor experience spanning two centuries of emigration and settlement ; provide the opportunity to explore the achievements and impacts of Ulster emigrants on people, culture and landscapes and honour our ancestors’ personal journeys, to better consider and connect with our own. Investment includes improved visitor and gallery space, outdoor attractions and educational spaces. Cuilcagh Lakelands Landscape Project This is a landscape wide destination development proposal with clusters of attractions and sites being developed and accessed with sustainability at the core. The dispersal of visitors across the area is essential for the Geopark reaching its full potential as a world class destination for sustainable outdoor recreation tourism. This can increase dwell time and the length of stay, to bringing economic and social benefits to settlements and communities across the Geopark and to ensuring that the risks of over-tourism at honey pot sites are managed and mitigated. Lough Navar and Castle Caldwell have the potential to significantly enhance the Geopark offer and disperse visitors bringing benefits to businesses and communities in the neighbouring villages of Derrygonnelly, Belleek and Garrison. It aims to create a world class visitor destination through building a new nearly zero energy visitor centre at Marble Arch Caves as a gateway to the Geopark, linking to significant developments at Killykeegan Nature Reserve and on to the Cavan Burren and the Shannon Pot by the “Smugglers Trail”; enhance and extend the Boardwalk Experience ; Create a Greenway linking Castle Caldwell to Belleek providing green infrastructure between two key tourism assets; create a “national park” experience at Lough Navar; and create a lough side heritage experience at Castle Caldwell. 4.3 Proposed Capital Investments to enhance Tourism Opportunities 45 Fermanagh Lakelands & Omagh and The Sperrins Through Mid SouthWest Growth Deal