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Dublin Hotel Pricing: A Comparative Review

This report brings independent empirical analysis to the Dublin hotel market with reference, inter alia, to the scale of price increases compared to increases in the costs of doing business and how Dublin benchmarks against European comparators.

Cumulative Impact of Changes to Payroll Costs on Business Operations

An analysis of key changes in employment costs arising from recent government policies and the impact they will have on the tourism and hospitality industries.

Debt Warehousing in Tourism

An analysis of the Government’s Covid-related Debt Warehousing programme from the perspective of the tourism sector.

2023 Tourism Careers Research Update

Read the results of Fáilte Ireland's third iteration of its tourism and hospitality labour market research.

2022 Tourism Careers Research Update

Read Fáilte Ireland's comprehensive research into the tourism and hospitality labour market.

Tourism Careers: Labour Research 2022

Read Fáilte Ireland's most comprehensive research into the tourism and hospitality labour market.

Recruitment challenges: a survey of tourism businesses

This report outlines results of a survey that was conducted with tourism businesses to analyse recruitment challenges in the industry.

Impact of the VAT Reduction on Irish Tourism and Tourism Employment [pdf, 1.9MB]

The report shows that Ireland’s value for money rating improved significantly following the VAT cut in 2011 - with the initiative resulting in lower prices than would otherwise have been the case as well as generating additional activity and employment.