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The Role Of Smes In Tourism Development: An Industrial District Approach Applied To Killarney, Ireland, Ziene Mottiar, Theresa Ryan Jan 2006

The Role Of Smes In Tourism Development: An Industrial District Approach Applied To Killarney, Ireland, Ziene Mottiar, Theresa Ryan

Books / Book chapters

No abstract provided.


Money And The Spatial Challenge: Multilevel Governance And The “Territorial Trap”’, Richard Woodward Feb 2005

Money And The Spatial Challenge: Multilevel Governance And The “Territorial Trap”’, Richard Woodward

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Co-Operative Marketing Structures In Rural Tourism: The Irish Case, Catherine Gorman Jan 2005

Co-Operative Marketing Structures In Rural Tourism: The Irish Case, Catherine Gorman

Books / Book chapters

It is recognised that co-operative practises amongst tourism providers creates competitive advantage through utilising and sharing resources. This leads to efficiencies and more effective provision of a valued experience for the visitor. This chapter explores the co-operative practises being utilised by three groups operating within the rural tourism sector in Ireland. It identifies barriers to co-operation and summates that frequent communication and evident benefits are key considerations in implementing an effective co-operative approach.


Dwelling Through Multiple Places: A Case Study Of Second Home Ownership In Ireland., Bernadette Quinn Jan 2004

Dwelling Through Multiple Places: A Case Study Of Second Home Ownership In Ireland., Bernadette Quinn

Books / Book chapters

The literature on second home ownership is by now quite extensive. While it may be also quite disparate, as Kaltenborn (1998) has claimed, identifiable areas within the general second home literature have begun to emerge. This paper focuses on one such area, that which explores the meaning of second home ownership. It re-visits one of the basic questions in the literature by asking why do people have second homes? This question has preoccupied several researchers over the last 20 years (e.g. Clout 1972, Jaakson 1986, Kaltenborn 1998, Chaplin 1999) and the ensuing literature has produced reasonably consistent findings by way …


Futures Thinking To Achieve Sustainable Development At Local Level In Ireland, Lorcan Sirr, Ruth Kelly, John Ratcliffe Jan 2004

Futures Thinking To Achieve Sustainable Development At Local Level In Ireland, Lorcan Sirr, Ruth Kelly, John Ratcliffe

Reports

We are living in times of unprecedented global change and upheaval and over the next ten to 20 years governments, organisations and individuals will face increasing difficulties in an environment of growing complexity, heightened uncertainty and a quickening pace of change. The concept of sustainable development implies the reconciliation of long-term socio-economic development, environmental protection and quality of life; essentially it is concerned with the future. Unfortunately, the potential for linking “futures thinking” to debates about sustainable development at local and regional government levels is relatively undeveloped, particularly in Ireland. Responding to this challenge, The Futures Academy at Technological University …


An ‘Ation’ Not A ‘Nation’: The Globalisation Of World Politics, Richard Woodward May 2003

An ‘Ation’ Not A ‘Nation’: The Globalisation Of World Politics, Richard Woodward

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Shaping Leisure/Tourism Places:The Role Of Holiday Home Owners: A Case Study Of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland, Ziene Mottiar, Bernadette Quinn Jan 2003

Shaping Leisure/Tourism Places:The Role Of Holiday Home Owners: A Case Study Of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland, Ziene Mottiar, Bernadette Quinn

Articles

This article investigates the role played by holiday home owners in shaping leisure / tourism places. Having reviewed recent trends in the holiday home literature, the paper argues the literature has failed to adequately consider how this group of actors can play a role in developing leisure / tourism places. The research is case study based and reports the findings of a study undertaken in Courtown, a small seaside resort in the Republic of Ireland. Specifically, it investigates the role that holiday home owners played in a controversy that arose with respect to developing tourism accommodation in an area of …


Symbols, Practices And Myth-Making: Cultural Perspectives On The Wexford Festival Opera, Bernadette Quinn Jan 2003

Symbols, Practices And Myth-Making: Cultural Perspectives On The Wexford Festival Opera, Bernadette Quinn

Articles

In recent decades geographers have paid increasing attention to festivals. They have construed festivals as important practices through which people connect with their place and as authored landscapes designed to promote particular sets of values and attach specific meanings to place. Tourism influences the processes and dynamics ongoing in festival settings and this paper seeks to unravel some of the complex ways in which it influences the reproduction of cultural meanings there. It draws on research conducted on the Wexford Festival Opera in the Republic of Ireland and analyses the symbolism, practices and meanings found to be associated with the …


Shaping Tourism Places: Agency And Interconnections In Festival Settings, Bernadette Quinn Jan 2003

Shaping Tourism Places: Agency And Interconnections In Festival Settings, Bernadette Quinn

Books / Book chapters

In the contemporary era local places seem exposed to more and faster change than ever before. The difference between places seems to be diminishing and debates as to whether ‘cultural homogenisation’ or ‘reconstituted difference’ best describes the changes affecting place feature prominently in recent social science and humanities literatures. Local places are linked to regional, national and supra-national spheres through multiple connections. Tourism is one important globalising force, linking places into the wider world and influencing the changing meanings of place. This chapter is broadly concerned with examining how tourism is implicated in changing the meanings of place. The type …


Futures Thinking For The Built And Human Environment: The Prospective Process Through Scenario Thinking For The Built And Human Environment: A Tool For Exploring Human Futures, John Ratcliffe, Lorcan Sirr Jan 2003

Futures Thinking For The Built And Human Environment: The Prospective Process Through Scenario Thinking For The Built And Human Environment: A Tool For Exploring Human Futures, John Ratcliffe, Lorcan Sirr

Articles

We are currently living through an era where we can, and need to, create exciting new possibilities in the way we think about, plan, design and build new places and spaces for working and living. At the same time, two irresistible forces – change and complexity – face decision-makers charged with framing and executing future policy and practice for the built and human environment. This paper generally argues the case for employing a ‘prospective’ process through scenario thinking for strategic planning and management in the urban arena. It does not attempt to identify or explore the advances made in planning …


The Sustainability Of Sustainable Consumption, Paddy Dolan Jan 2002

The Sustainability Of Sustainable Consumption, Paddy Dolan

Articles

This article examines the limitations of the concept of sustainable consumption in terms of the inadequate attention given to the social, cultural and historical contextualization of consumption. I argue that Macromarketing should adopt modes of inquiry that more fully engage with this contextualization. The implicit assumptions of ‘sustainable consumption’ center on the rational individual and his or her needs and wants, and neglect the significance of consumption practices as embodying the relations between individuals. Acts of consumption are not in opposition to, and prior to, macro structures and processes, they are macro processes at work. Consumer practices are cultural and …


Developing Ireland As A Successful Garden Tourism Destination, Catherine Elizabeth Gorman Jan 1999

Developing Ireland As A Successful Garden Tourism Destination, Catherine Elizabeth Gorman

Conference papers

The marketing of Ireland as a garden destination has been evolving over the past six years. The complexity of Ireland’s history and modern circumstances have led to the demise of Irish gardens over the past three centuries. An initiative entitled The Great Gardens of Ireland Restoration Programme has been operated under the Operational Programme for Tourism 1994-99 which has been funded by the European Union. The outcome of the scheme has been twofold; the funding has rescued a significant part of Irish heritage and history; it has provided many new comprehensive tourist attractions to both the domestic and overseas market. …


Irish Travel, Vol 27 (1951-52), Irish Travel Association Oct 1951

Irish Travel, Vol 27 (1951-52), Irish Travel Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 26 (1950-51), Irish Tourist Association Oct 1950

Irish Travel, Vol 26 (1950-51), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 21 (1945-46), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1945

Irish Travel, Vol 21 (1945-46), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 20 (1944-45), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1944

Irish Travel, Vol 20 (1944-45), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 19 (1943-44), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1943

Irish Travel, Vol 19 (1943-44), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 18 (1942-43), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1942

Irish Travel, Vol 18 (1942-43), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 17 (1941-42), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1941

Irish Travel, Vol 17 (1941-42), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 16 (1940-41), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1940

Irish Travel, Vol 16 (1940-41), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 15 (1939-40), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1939

Irish Travel, Vol 15 (1939-40), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 14 (1938-39), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1938

Irish Travel, Vol 14 (1938-39), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol 13 (1937-38), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1937

Irish Travel, Vol 13 (1937-38), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 12 (1936-37), Irish Tourist Association Oct 1936

Irish Travel, Vol. 12 (1936-37), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 11 (1935-36), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1935

Irish Travel, Vol. 11 (1935-36), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 10 (1934-35), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1934

Irish Travel, Vol. 10 (1934-35), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 09 (1933-34), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1933

Irish Travel, Vol. 09 (1933-34), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 08 (1932-33), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1932

Irish Travel, Vol. 08 (1932-33), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 07 (1931-32), Irish Tourist Association Jan 1931

Irish Travel, Vol. 07 (1931-32), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.


Irish Travel, Vol. 06 (1930-31), Irish Tourist Association Sep 1930

Irish Travel, Vol. 06 (1930-31), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.