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Temple Bar Business Survey, 2012, Kevin Griffin, Jane Fitzgerald, Sheila Flanagan

Reports / Surveys

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Can Sustainable Tourism Indicators Assist In The Management Of Sacred Sites, Kevin Griffin, Hadil Faris

Reports / Surveys

This paper brings together some thoughts on the breadth and range of research being undertaken in the area of Religious Tourism, and puts that alongside the concept of Sustainable Tourism, blending the two to investigate how Indicator models could be used to broaden the research agenda for Religious Tourism.

Temple Bar Visitors Survey, 2012, Kevin Griffin, Jane Fitzgerald, Sheila Flanagan

Reports / Surveys

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The Challenge Of Implementing A Sustainable Tourism Assessment Tool In An Urban Environment, Kevin Griffin, Sheila Flanagan, Jane Fitzgerald

Conference papers

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Temple Bar Resident Survey, 2012, Jane Fitzgerald, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin

Reports / Surveys

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Achievingsustainable Tourism Futures: Putting The Dit-Achievmodel Into Practice, Jane Fitzgerald, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin

Conference papers

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Putting The Dit-Achiev Model Into Practice “Empowering The Tourism Industry”, Kevin Griffin, Sheila Flanagan, Jane Fitzgerald

Conference papers

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Implementation Of The Dit-Achiev Model For Sustainable Tourism Destination Management: Killarney, Ireland, A Case Study, Kevin Griffin, Maeve Morrissey, Sheila Flanagan

Conference papers

The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields of interest – Administration, Community, Heritage, Infrastructure, Enterprise and Visitor (Flanagan et al, 2007). This current research addresses the implementation of the DIT- ACHIEV model in an Irish tourism destination, with the objective to assess whether it can be implemented by the local community in any tourism destination.

The methodology used to implement the model is based on recommendations by Goodey (1995) and Denman (2006). Goodey …

Sustainable Tourism Indicators: Issues And Challenges In The Development Of A Sustainable Tourism Management Model, Kevin Griffin

Conference papers

While it is generally agreed that sustainability is the only long term path for tourism the question of how it should be measured (or attained) remains a challenge. Based on a 2 year EPA funded project this paper traces the development of indicators for sustainable tourism and discusses how they would be of considerable benefit to both government agencies and tourist interests, in the determination of management objectives for an area. It outlines a model of sustainable tourism indicators which was developed and suggests how this model could be adopted by tourism managers.

The objectives of the paper are to …