Who's behind Pick Tourism?
Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, promote and develop Ireland as a tourism destination. Failte Ireland are well known for the ‘RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW’ Discover Ireland campaign and sponsorship of lots of tourism related events – Volvo Ocean Race, St Patricks Day Festival, The Ryder Cup, Dublin Horseshow, ‘Taste of’ festivals to name but a few.
To help ensure there are plenty of trained and qualified people available to work for these areas, Fáilte Ireland have created picktourism.ie to provide everything you need to know about training and working in the Tourism industry.
Contact Fáilte Ireland if you have any specific queries.
What's the site about?
This site gives you all the information you need to know from choosing a course in 3rd level to taking a job in the world's biggest industry - Tourism.
If you want choice and variety in life then
Pick Tourism!
When you Pick Tourism, you can climb the career ladd
er in a swanky hotel, or be a marketing executive in a tourism office, or perhaps get involved in organising events like Oxegen, or be a chef in a Michelin star restaurant. These are just a flavour of the many options out there.
picktourism.ie has information about all the different tourism-related courses and careers in Ireland. We’ve described some types of jobs you can get after graduation (although that’s so far away). And we’ve got the insider’s view by interviewing current and past students.
Hope you find www.picktourism.ie helpful!
