RMS Titanic over 1,600 ships being built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island became renamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in 1995. Once a sensitive story, "Titanic" is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic and uniting symbols. In late August 2018, several groups were vying for the right to purchase the 5,500 "Titanic" relics that were an asset of the bankrupt Premier Exhibitions. Eventually, "Titanic" Belfast, Titanic Foundation Limited and the National Museums Northern Ireland joined with the National Maritime Museum as a consortium that was raising money to purchase the 5,500 artifacts. The group
RMS Titanic to 30 million (100% rise by 2008). It was subsequently identified in the Northern Ireland Tourism Board's Strategic Framework for Action 2004–2007 that the significance of and interest in "Titanic" globally (partly due to the 1997 film "Titanic") was not being fully exploited as a tourist attraction. Thus, "Titanic" Belfast® was spearheaded, along with some smaller projects, such as a "Titanic" memorial. In 2012 on the ship's centenary, "Titanic" Belfast visitor attraction was opened on the site of the shipyard where "Titanic" was built. It was Northern Ireland's second most visited tourist attraction with almost 700,000 visitors in 2016. Despite