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Join The Pack - Add Your Dog Friendly Business To Best Bark Today
Give more people a reason to choose your destination.
As the demand for dog friendly travel continues to surge, catering to dog owners offers destinations a massive competitive edge. Best Bark makes your location simple to navigate, giving visitors the confidence to explore deeper, spend locally, and champion your region.
Give more people a reason to choose your destination.
As the demand for dog friendly travel continues to surge, catering to dog owners offers destinations a massive competitive edge. Best Bark makes your location simple to navigate, giving visitors the confidence to explore deeper, spend locally, and champion your region.
5M+
Views across our Instagram & Facebook since Jan 2026
10K+
Average website visitors per month
20K+
Followers across our social channels.
1K+
Listings across the whole of Ireland
The opportunity
Dog friendly is not one filter. It affects the whole trip.
Today’s dog owners want to bring their dogs with them, and they need the right information at every stage of their journey. Best Bark helps connect it all.
Eat
Where can we eat?
Explore
What can we do?
Move
How do we get around?
Trust
Are the details current?
Without a connected resource
- “Dogs allowed”, but where?
- Different rules on every website
- No easy route from stay to food to activity
- Visitors give up or play it safe
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With Best Bark
- Clear, current dog access information
- Places connected by destination and intent
- Useful itineraries and local guides
- Trusted discovery before and during the trip
Real visitors. Real impact.
Dog friendly information can influence where people choose to go
Dog owners are already using Best Bark to plan trips to Northern Ireland. Clear, useful dog friendly information makes a destination easier to choose and much easier to explore once they arrive.
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Megan S
★★★★★
“I’ve just got back to Manchester after a week in Belfast/Portrush with my dog and wanted to say THANK YOU for providing such amazing info on all the places we could go for food/drink. We had such a fab time and Best Bark made it so much easier to plan!”
Gwen Wons
★★★★★
“Helped me so much in finding places with my dog” “Hi, just wanted to text that I’ve only been in N. Ireland for a week and loved your website. It helped me so much in finding places with my dog. The concept is brilliant and I really hope you’ll expand to London soon too 💌”
Make the dog friendly offer visible, and the destination becomes easier to imagine.
When dog owners can quickly see where they can eat, stay, travel and explore with their dog, they have more confidence to plan the trip and more reasons to choose that destination.
Visit Belfast case study
How Best Bark helps position Belfast as a genuinely dog friendly destination
Best Bark is Visit Belfast’s official dog friendly partner, supporting destination visibility, accurate information, inspiring content and campaign activity that helps more people and their dogs explore Belfast with confidence.
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Website authority & discovery
- Best Bark logo displayed on dog friendly partner listings
- Links back to Best Bark to discover more dog friendly places
- Visibility across key search pages including places to stay
2
Content & social collaboration
- Collaborative Instagram Reels
- Dog friendly guides and seasonal blog content
- Destination storytelling for dog owners
3
Travel & visitor clarity
- Worked with Translink to make their dog travel policy clearer
- Supported a three way partnership to promote dogs on Translink buses
- Made planning with dogs easier
4
Ongoing destination support
- Reviewed which partners are genuinely dog friendly
- Help keep Visit Belfast’s dog friendly category accurate and up to date
- Visitor feedback has mentioned how helpful Best Bark is
We partnered with Best Bark because more and more visitors are planning their trips around their dogs, and they need places they can genuinely trust. Belfast is a great city for dog owners, with cafés, walks and places to stay that really welcome them. Best Bark takes the guesswork out of planning a responsible trip with a dog, and we’re proud to support how they’ve grown.
Gavin McKenna
Head of Marketing, Digital Communications
Visit Belfast
The result
A stronger, clearer dog friendly visitor journey for Belfast.
Belfast has a more connected and trusted dog friendly visitor offer, with Best Bark helping visitors discover where they can stay, travel, eat and explore with their dogs.
Best Bark in numbers
The audience is already here.
Best Bark connects dog owners with businesses and places across Ireland.
5M+
Social views
since January 2026
10K+
Average website visitors
each month
20K+
Dog owners across
our social community
1,000+
Businesses and places
listed across Ireland
Partnership opportunities
What a tourism partnership could look like
We work with destinations to build a stronger dog friendly visitor offer, support local businesses, keep information accurate and put the destination in front of dog owners actively deciding where to go.
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Build the dog friendly destination layer
Accurate, useful information dog owners can actually plan around.
We work with the destination to build and maintain a clear picture of its dog friendly offering, including:
- Dog friendly places to stay, eat and visit
- Parks, walks, beaches and attractions
- Events suitable for visitors with dogs
- Access rules, restrictions and useful amenities
- Gaps in the current visitor offering
- Best Bark badges or trusted dog friendly markers across relevant destination content
2
Help businesses become confidently dog friendly
Give local businesses the guidance and confidence to welcome dogs properly.
Best Bark can support hospitality and tourism businesses across the destination with practical guidance that helps them decide what dog friendly should look like for their premises, set clear boundaries and communicate their policy properly.
- Dog friendly policy guidance
- Clear house rules and access boundaries
- Advice on where dogs can comfortably be accommodated
- Staff guidance for managing dog related situations
- Help communicating policies clearly to customers
- Responsible dog ownership guidance and campaigns
- Support for businesses considering becoming dog friendly
More confident businesses. Clearer policies. A stronger dog friendly destination.
3
Create reasons to visit
Turn that information into trips people can imagine themselves taking.
We create inspiring content and itineraries that bring the destination’s dog friendly offering together, including:
- Dog friendly weekend itineraries
- City break and regional guides
- Seasonal trip planning content
- Dog friendly food, accommodation and activity guides
- Editorial content based on real Best Bark trips
- Dedicated destination pages or hubs on Best Bark
4
Audience & campaigns
Put the destination in front of dog owners who are actively planning where to go.
We use Best Bark’s audience, content and channels to build awareness of the destination as somewhere genuinely good to visit with a dog.
- Social campaigns across Best Bark
- Newsletter features
- Paid advertising across Best Bark
- Joint competitions and seasonal campaigns
- Ambassador and creator visits
- User generated content
- Paid creator partnerships where appropriate
- Promotion around key events and visitor periods
5
Build authority around the destination
Help establish the destination as somewhere that takes dog friendly tourism seriously.
We support wider destination credibility through PR, guidance and insight, including:
- Joint press releases and media outreach
- PR around new dog friendly initiatives
- Best Bark commentary and expertise for tourism content
- Support for local tourism businesses
- Guidance on what dog owners actually need
- Sharing audience behaviour, search trends and visitor insight
- Identifying opportunities to improve the dog friendly visitor experience
The goal
Make your destination easier for dog owners to discover, trust, plan and choose.
One destination. One connected dog friendly visitor journey.
Trusted by brilliant brands
We work with organisations helping make Ireland better for dog owners
From tourism organisations to national pet brands, we partner with teams that want to make dog friendly travel easier, support better experiences for dog owners and reach an engaged audience across Ireland.
Naturo Pet Food is delighted to partner with Best Bark as they work to create a more dog friendly Ireland. Their efforts are making it easier for dog owners across the country to enjoy more places and experiences with their dogs, and we're proud to stand alongside them as their official dog food partner.
Naturo Pet Foods
Official Dog Food Partner
We partnered with Best Bark because more and more visitors are planning their trips around their dogs, and they need places they can genuinely trust. Belfast is a great city for dog owners, with cafés, walks and places to stay that really welcome them. Best Bark takes the guesswork out of planning a responsible trip with a dog, and we’re proud to support how they’ve grown.
Gavin McKenna
Head of Marketing, Digital Communications
Visit Belfast
Let’s work together
We’re already doing the work. A partnership helps connect it.
Best Bark combines specialist dog friendly knowledge with an active audience, established tourism relationships and a platform built around discovery. We help connect the places, information and experiences dog owners need to explore more of your destination.
