About this site

www.businesstools.failteireland.ie is the Fáilte Ireland business tools website. It provides Irish tourism and hospitality businesses, and the people who support and advise them, with free access to a wide range of practical business and finance tools.


What we can do for you

The site contains simple and clear interactive tools, calculators, templates, guides, resources and links to information to help small to medium tourism business owners and managers deal with financial management challenges.

Info Guides

On the site, there are practical Info Guides and Info Sheets offering advice for businesses on topics such as:

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


Interactive tools

The interactive tools include step-by-step guidance through activities like:

- how to write a Business and Marketing Plan.
- comparing your hotel’s performance with industry averages.


Calculators and templates

The site also contains user-friendly online and Excel format calculators, and Excel format templates.


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.