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Developing A Visitor Profile: The Hill Of Tara For Hill Of Tara Conservation Management Plan, Catherine Gorman, Kevin Fogarty, Emylii Santana Souza, Gabriela Stasiulyte
Developing A Visitor Profile: The Hill Of Tara For Hill Of Tara Conservation Management Plan, Catherine Gorman, Kevin Fogarty, Emylii Santana Souza, Gabriela Stasiulyte
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A Conservation Management Plan for the State-owned lands at the Hill of Tara was commissioned by the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in January 2018. As an element of this at the request of the Heritage Council and the Discovery Programme, a visitor profile was undertaken by staff and students of the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). According to the Office of Public Works (OPW), over 200,000 people visit Tara archaeological site each year, and the site is being actively promoted as part of the Ireland’s Ancient East brand by Fáilte Ireland. …
Developing Food Tourism Networks: A Practical Manual, Mary Rose Stafford, Denise O'Leary
Developing Food Tourism Networks: A Practical Manual, Mary Rose Stafford, Denise O'Leary
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There is no one‘right’way to collaborate to develop food tourism but the aim of this manual is to provide you with advice on good practice illustrated by case studies from home and abroad. The advice provided is based on research with three committees based in Ireland who were directly or peripherally involved in developing food tourism, as well as decades of research on collaboration, networks, tourism and food tourism. Throughout the manual are exercises which will help apply this advice to your region and circumstances, key facts which provide evidenced based research information and insights from members of the three …
Visitscotland.Com Effectiveness Study, Patrick Horan, Andrew Frew
Visitscotland.Com Effectiveness Study, Patrick Horan, Andrew Frew
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This report is a culmination of a comprehensive piece of research that studied the effectiveness of Visitscotland.com on a longitudinal basis over an eight month period from January 2009 up until August 2009. The purpose of the research is twofold. Firstly, the main purpose of the study was to evaluate how effectively VisitScotland.com serves its many stakeholders from a wide variety of perspectives. The second reason for conducting this research was to validate an expert system created specifically to evaluate the effectiveness of Destination Management Systems (DMS) from Macro, Meso, and Micro viewpoints.