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Food Tourism

Interested in food tourism? Find out what visitors like to eat, access information on food trends and visitor satisfaction research, and learn from case studies and management tools.

Food tourism resources
The Dubline - Dublin Discovery Trail

The Dubline is a project that will significantly enhance the visitor experience of Dublin City through the creation of a unique branded cultural trail.

The Dubline project
Wild Atlantic Way

Wild Atlantic Way will provide a guided touring route that will attract tourists to key destinations and attractions all along the west coast.

Wild Atlantic Way project
Cultural Tourism

Get essential advice on improving your sales to the valuable cultural tourism sector and learn how to sell Ireland's heritage effectively.

Attract cultural tourists
Using signage to promote your business

Discover how a brown tourism road sign could help your business

About brown signs [pdf, 513kb]
Built heritage toolkit

Want to develop a heritage site as a tourist attraction? We'll help you take advantage of the rich demand for Ireland's built heritage.

Built heritage toolkit
Easy Steps to Marketing Walking Trails:

Build a real buzz for trails in your locality with these simple guidelines

Marketing your trail
The Dingle Story

A multilingual, multimedia marketing tool to help you catch the essence of Dingle and the imaginations of your target customers.

Tell your Dingle story

Find out how to develop and improve your tourism business

Managing a small tourism business

Access our marketing guide that will help you complete your marketing plan, with detailed advice on the development and implementation of an e-marketing strategy.

Leading a medium to large tourism business

Access our range of practical guides and templates focusing on promoting your business, performance, profitability, your people and managing processes.                 

Starting a tourism business

We have developed a range of guides to help you think about key planning considerations when starting a new business.

Sell to overseas markets

Our Sales Connect Toolkit is an essential tool in promoting your business to lucrative international markets.

Sell to domestic markets

We offer practical and innovative best practice tools and resources to help you improve business performance, enhance your online presence, and increase domestic trade.

Get quality assured

Give consumers symbols and standards of service they can trust and make quality assurance work for your business.

Book a place on our webinars

Our webinars are a series of short online discussions aimed at tourism business to give you an insight in to the many online technologies you can use in your business. The webinars will take place on the last Wednesday or Thursday of every month and will cover a range of topics.

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A hand with money 230X100

Find out how we support Irish tourism businesses and if you're eligible for any of our funding schemes.

Identify available funding

Credit guarantee scheme

The Credit Guarantee Scheme was introduced in October 2012 by the Government to assist viable SMEs on the margins of commercial lending decisions in accessing credit.

For further information go to www.djei.ie