About Elaina Fitzgerald Kane

Elaina Fitzgerald Kane is the 20th Chairperson of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation.

Elaina is the past President of the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) and was a key player in securing survival and recovery tourism supports during the two very challenging pandemic years. She follows in the footsteps of her mother Mary who was the first female President of the IHF in 2000. Elaina is also very active on a number of national and local boards and taskforces across business, tourism and education.

A graduate of the Shannon College of Hotel Management, National University of Ireland, Galway and University College Dublin’s Smurfit Business School. More recently, Elaina has attained a number of certificates from Cornell University and Dublin City University.  Elaina has worked in Switzerland, the UK & the USA.

Elaina is a passionate tourism advocate and is deeply committed to hosting world class experiences, creating magical hospitality moments and developing the amazing tourism community with authenticity and sustainability underpinning everything.

Together with her family and an extended team of 250 great people, Elaina runs the award winning, 4 star, Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel & Spa in Adare, Co Limerick. Since its humble beginnings as a 4 bedroomed bed and breakfast over 45 years ago, their hotel has been nurtured into a resort style property on 44 acres of organic grounds with community and sustainability at its heart. Elaina is married to Myles and is mother to 3 lively boys!