About this site

www.businesstools.failteireland.ie provides Irish tourism and hospitality businesses, with free access to a wide range of practical business and finance tools. The site includes information, advice and tools for tourism start-ups.


What we can do for you

You'll find a range of useful information guides and tools on the site:


Information Guides

Info Guides and Info Sheets offer practical advice on topics such as:

- Understanding your accounts
- Cashflow
- Pricing
- Costs
- Profit
- Sales



Interactive tools

Interactive tools offer step-by-step guidance through activities such as:

- how to write a Business and Marketing Plan
- how to write a Business Plan for tourism start-ups
- how to put together a Sales Action Plan.
- comparing your hotel’s performance with industry averages.

Tourism businesses can use the Business Health Check tool to assess their business heath in key management areas such as marketing.


Calculators and templates

The site also contains Excel and Word format calculators and downloadable templates focusing on cash flow, pricing, marketing, sales, break-even point and much more.



Fáilte Ireland's range of supports and services

www.businesstools.failteireland.ie  is managed and maintained by Fáilte Ireland, Ireland's tourism development authority. The key role of Fáilte Ireland is to support and help the Irish tourism industry to meet the challenges facing the entire global tourism market and to sustain, or increase, the level of activity in the sector.

We are primarily a catalyst of other people’s activity. We support the industry in its efforts to be more competitive and more profitable. As the State’s tourism development authority, we are well placed to address some of the broader issues that need to be tackled if the industry is to grow and to develop.

Our emphasis is on strategic partnership, with all the interests in Irish tourism at national, local and regional levels working together towards a common goal.

Fáilte Ireland’s range of supports and services provides those involved, or considering becoming involved in Irish tourism, with a one-stop-shop to meet their business or professional needs. Working in partnership with the industry, Fáilte Ireland will meet the industry’s needs, leading and supporting Irish tourism in its next phase of development.