Fáilte Ireland – Video: Energy Management Made Easy for Tourism Businesses
This video supports hospitality and tourism SMEs to reduce energy use, cut operating costs, and improve sustainability through practical energy management approaches that can be applied in everyday business operations.
SEAI – Case Study - John Lee's Bar and Venue, Tullamore
This case study shows how an Irish hospitality venue improved energy efficiency, reduced costs, and accessed sustainability supports, offering practical lessons for SMEs seeking realistic, business-focused environmental improvements.
SEAI – Series 2: Episode 1 - Are Green Hotels Here to Stay
This video explores green hotel practices in Ireland, showing how hospitality businesses can improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and use SEAI supports to make sustainability commercially practical.
Tourism NI TED Leaner and Greener Masterclass - Tourism NI Welcome
This masterclass helps tourism and hospitality SMEs identify practical ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and adopt greener business practices that support more sustainable day-to-day operations.
WRAP NI and CIEH - Preventing waste in the hospitality and food service sector
This video explains how hospitality and food service businesses can prevent waste, improve resource efficiency, reduce costs, and embed more sustainable practices into everyday kitchen and service operations.
SEAI Case Study: A 17th-century castle brings its energy efficiency into the 21st century – Markree Castle, Co. Sligo
SEAI case-study video showing how Sligo Park Hotel achieved significant energy savings through upgrades including heat-pump, controls and monitoring. Practical, transferable insights for Irish hotel operators on retrofits and smart energy management.
SEAI Case Study: A Hydro-Powered Hotel – The Falls Hotel & Spa, Co. Clare
SEAI video case study on the Falls Hotel & Spa, which installed a river turbine generating up to 70% of annual energy needs and became a certified carbon neutral property. A flagship sustainability story for Irish hospitality, with transferable insights on renewable energy for hotels.
Inside Tourism Business (Fáilte Ireland)
Fáilte Ireland's flagship podcast for Ireland's tourism operators. Episodes across the series cover food operations, cost and waste reduction, revenue management, digital transformation, consumer trends and using technology to streamline hospitality operations. Hosted by Ruth Hegarty with industry experts and Irish operators.
180 Degrees – SEAI Podcast (Season 2, Ep 1): Hotel Doolin – Ireland's first carbon neutral hotel
SEAI's (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland) podcast episode featuring Áine Martin, Green Team Leader at Hotel Doolin, on the hotel's journey to becoming Ireland's first certified carbon neutral hotel, alongside SEAI's Dearbhla Stapleton on practical energy-efficiency supports for Irish hospitality businesses.
EY CEO Outlook: From tech to tourism – Alice Mansergh, CEO of Tourism Ireland
EY Ireland's CEO Outlook podcast interview with Alice Mansergh, CEO of Tourism Ireland, on leading digital transformation in Irish tourism, the application of AI and data, and positioning the island of Ireland in overseas markets.
Ireland with Mark Kelly
Irish-produced podcast exploring applications and ethics of AI across Irish business and society. Highly relevant for hospitality upskilling, with episodes on AI-driven marketing, guest experience, forecasting and operational efficiency that translate directly to the sector.
ESB Re:Energise Podcast Series – Episode 6 “How the hospitality industry is tackling waste”
With Ireland generating 750,000 of food waste each year, Meghann chats with three guests who are helping to tackle this issue. Maurice Mc Geehan, Head Performance Chef at the IRFU, talks about the importance of food education, Liam Murphy, Country Manager at Positive Carbon, explains how AI food waste monitors are helping businesses track and reduce their waste in real time while Niall Sabongi, restaurant owner and founder of Sustainable Seafood Ireland, discusses what sustainable seafood really means.
ESB Re:Energise Podcast Series – Episode 10: “Repurposing and upcycling for future use”
Exploration of world of repurposing and upcycling, interviewing architect Patrick Bradley whose designs have reused shipping containers in incredibly creative ways. Gordon Hickey, the owner of a cafe in a shipping container in Dublin, explains how he brought his idea to life and Angie Nagle from Bladebirdge tells of how her team are repurposing wind turbine blades into all sorts of products.
The Hotel Podcast from Aró - Aró Digital Strategy: Episode 19 “The what, why and how of influencer marketing for hotels”
In this deep dive, we talk to Daniel Stewart from influencer marketing agency Tailify to better understand this oft maligned marketing channel. He explains what an influencer is (and that they prefer to be called creators); why you would work with one (or several) to leverage this valuable marketing vertical; and how hotels can use the content influencers create for multiple organic and paid social media campaigns and measure the return on investment.
Alice Mansergh – Tourism Ireland – Business Plus Talks
Business Plus Talks episode with Alice Mansergh, CEO of Tourism Ireland, discussing strategy for the all-island tourism sector, sustainable growth, and the role of digitalisation and innovation in attracting visitors to Ireland.
The Hotel Podcast from Aró - Aró Digital Strategy: Episode 26 “A vision for the future of hospitality
Karen Fleming is the accomplished Sales Director at the renowned Cashel Palace Hotel that is a member of Relais & Châteaux & Ireland's Blue Book. She has played a pivotal role in driving the hotel’s sales and marketing strategies, significantly contributing to its reputation for excellence and luxury. In this exclusive interview, Karen shares her insights with Lisa Leahy on leveraging digital innovation to boost sales and enhance guest experiences. Join us as we explore her journey, the challenges faced, and Karen's vision for the future of hospitality at The Cashel Palace Hotel.
The Cocktail Academy – Episode 63: “Kiki Lounge – Building a tropical bar on a not-so-tropical island”
On this episode, Damian Cole sits down with Jamie Lewis and Drew Fleming from Kiki Lounge — the award-winning bar bringing tropical escapism to the windswept Isle of Man. The pair share how a pandemic pivot turned a small-island nightclub into one of the UK’s most talked-about cocktail destinations, and why they chose to drop the word tiki in favour of something more authentic and inclusive.
They talk origin stories, supply-chain nightmares, and the creative freedom that comes with isolation. With only 80 thousand residents and every delivery arriving by boat, Kiki’s team have learned to plan months ahead, reuse everything, and turn scarcity into a design principle. From fermenting pineapple trim into milk punch to developing house “super-juice” for consistency, they prove sustainability can be both pragmatic and profitable.
VR Resolve – Restaurant & Hospitality Skillnet (Ireland)
A Virtual Reality customer-service upskilling solution developed for Irish hospitality by the Restaurant & Hospitality Skillnet. Participants step into realistic restaurant scenarios to practise handling complaints and decisions in a risk-free immersive setting.
TU Dublin (with Haaga-Helia, UIB, Hotelschool The Hague) – Immersive Learning in Hospitality (EU-funded AR/VR project)
An EU-funded project with TU Dublin as the Irish partner, exploring how low-end, accessible AR/VR content can enhance hospitality education. Provides open-access insights, outputs and demonstrators on embedding immersive learning in Irish and European hospitality training.
Fáilte Ireland – Wild Atlantic Way Virtual Reality Tours
Fáilte Ireland's pioneering VR/360° tours of the Wild Atlantic Way, available via the Oculus store and web/mobile 360° video. Illustrates how Irish tourism has used immersive media to market destinations and engage visitors, a useful reference for hospitality digitalisation.
