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Legal and licensing help for new tourist accommodation businesses
You should be aware of the various legal considerations before starting up a tourist accommodation business, such as certification.
Entrepreneurship for tourist accommodation providers
Accommodation providers can benefit from strategic planning and taking an entrepreneurial approach to running the business.
Quality assessment and star ratings for new accommodation businesses
Tourism NI runs a voluntary quality grading scheme for accommodation businesses – find out how to get your new business graded to boost your reputation.
The tourist economy in Northern Ireland
Key facts and figures about the tourism industry in Northern Ireland.
Certifying a new accommodation business
If you are starting up a new tourist accommodation business such as a hotel or bed and breakfast, you must apply to get certification from Tourism NI.
Support available for accommodation businesses
Help, support and advice for tourist accommodation providers such as hotels and guesthouses, including Invest NI and Tourism NI.
Categories of accommodation business
The eight accommodation categories in Northern Ireland including hotel, guesthouse, bed and breakfast and hostel.
Chemicals and waste
Regulations for trading in the chemicals sector
Start a tourist accommodation business
How to start a tourist business in Northern Ireland, including the tourism economy, key considerations, challenges and certification.
What is Six Sigma?
How implementing Six Sigma on a project-by-project basis can improve quality and reduce waste in your business.
Process efficiency to cut waste
How reducing waste in your operational processes by using Lean Thinking and Six Sigma can benefit your business.
Using and managing solvents
How to reduce, monitor and manage the use of solvents in your business to reduce environmental impacts and costs.
What are Lean methods?
The origins of lean methods and using lean tools to maximise the use of resources in your business processes.
How to get from unemployed to self-employed
Information and advice on how to get started in business when you are unemployed and key questions to consider.
Business start-up challenges for unemployed people
Guidance on starting your own business when unemployed and how to overcome any potential challenges along the way.
Business rates: New valuation list published
The new valuation list for non-domestic properties will be used to calculate business rate bills from 1 April 2023.
Workshop: Modern revenue generation – selling with the whole company
Workshop to help local tech companies to launch a new product or expand into a new market and reach target customers.
Support and advice for waste issues in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland sources of advice and support to meet waste obligations and improve your environmental performance.
What is an environmental review?
An environmental review is a three-stage process of assessing environmental performance and making improvements.
Reval 2023: New draft valuations for business rates
The draft schedule of values is the list of values that will be used from 1 April 2023 to calculate non-domestic rate bills.