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KERRY County Council has announced the successful recipients under Fáilte Ireland’s Regional Festival & Participative Events Programme 2024. The Programme aims to support festivals and participate events that will drive domestic tourism and help to improve the visitor experience in Kerry. Among the recipients are Tralee Food Festival (€1,805), National […]

FAILTE Ireland’s held a Local Experts Programme workshop, this week in the Listowel Arms Hotel. The Local Experts Programme is part of an initiative by Fáilte Ireland to develop a network of local tourism and hospitality experts in Listowel and the North Kerry area. The programme has been developed to […]

A SPECIAL networking event was hosted by Fáilte Ireland for the Tralee and North Kerry tourism industry in The Ashe Hotel, Tralee, this week. Over 40 tourism businesses attended the event, which brought businesses together in a central meeting location. The objective of the networking sessions was to communicate and […]

TOURISM stakeholders from around the county attended a special event in Killarney on Thursday. Fáilte Ireland launched its 2023 plans  to help drive sustainable recovery of tourism at a regional tourism industry briefing in the INEC Killarney. Head of the Wild Atlantic Way, Miriam Kennedy, gave details on plans for […]

FÁILTE Ireland’s Kerry Local Experts Programme workshop took place on Wednesday at the Ballygarry Estate Hotel and Spa. The Local Experts Programme is part of an initiative by Fáilte Ireland to develop a network of local tourism and hospitality experts in Tralee. The programme has been developed to support those […]

OVER 50 businesses and individuals from Kerry, today attended Fáilte Ireland’s ‘Taste the Island’ workshop in the Great Southern Killarney Hotel. This is part of a series of workshops taking place across Ireland over the next number of weeks to develop a strong programme of food and drink experiences that […]

THE Rose Hotel has once again been recognised for its high standards of excellence, having recently received the Service Excellence Business Award from Fáilte Ireland. Highly regarded in the hospitality industry, the Fáilte Ireland Service Excellence Programme encourages the optimisation of individual and collective operational capability, leading to improved profitability […]

KERRY was the fourth most visited county last year by both overseas and domestic tourists according to new information from Fáilte Ireland. In total, €542m was spent in Kerry by overseas and domestic tourists according to the data which charts visitor numbers and revenue by region and county in 2017. Dublin […]

FÁILTE Ireland, in partnership with the OPW, has today announced a major investment of €2.25 million in the Blasket Centre in Kerry, to enhance the visitor experience at the OPW site. The investment, which forms part of Fáilte Ireland’s strategic partnership with the OPW, will see the development of a new walkway […]

Fáilte Ireland has announced an allocation of €96,250 in funding to 31 festivals in Kerry, as part its 2017 Regional Festivals & Participative Events Programme. Over a third of this goes to Dingle events with Other Voices €20,000, Dingle Food Festival €7,000 and the Dingle Film Festival €4,000, the biggest allocations. While […]

FUNDING of  €116,500 is to be allocated to thirty festivals in County Kerry by Fáilte Ireland, under its 2016 Festivals and Events Programme. This includes €30,000 for the Rose of Tralee and €3,000 for the Tralee 800 celebrations. Announcing the funding, Minister of State for Tourism & Sport, Michael Ring […]

TRALEE was named the Best Large Tourism town in Ireland at the Fáilte Ireland Tourism Towns earlier today (see story here), so what impressed judges so much that we were awarded the honour? Here’s the judges’ comments on the town and it makes for great reading… • The impression and reality […]

IN fantastic news for the town, Tralee has won the top tourism town in Ireland at the Fáilte Ireland Tourism Towns awards. Tralee beat off neighbours Killarney and the two other nominees in the Best Large Town category to claim the prize. It’s an incredible boost to tourism and richly deserved considering the amount of effort […]

  FÁILTE Ireland met with representatives of the Kerry tourism industry in the Malton Hotel, Killarney on Thursday to discuss the recent performance of tourism in the South West. The body also presented Fáilte Ireland’s outlook for the year ahead and outlined the tourism authority’s plans for the year ahead. The meeting […]

IF you see a trail of 50 flashy sports cars making its way out towards the Dingle road next week, we can tell you that, no, the Skellig Hotel is not hosting an American rapper’s stag party. No, these cars are from the people at Porsche Club Ireland who will be passing through Tralee next Thursday […]

FÁILTE Ireland met members of the Kerry tourism industry in The Ballygarry Hotel, Tralee on Friday about the Wild Atlantic Way. It was all part of a series of briefings by the tourism body which were being held, with a special focus focus on the route. The national tourism authority is seeking […]