This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a
comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation …

Chapter 1 provided a context within which a study focusing on issues of space, culture and
identity in modern Ireland might be undertaken. In this chapter I want to take an overview of …

This paper aims to examine aspects of the relationship between tourism and place identity in
rural Ireland. This relationship is conceptualised in terms of the seemingly contradictory …

Regional imagery is increasingly being recognised as having a commercial value for the
products of under‐developed areas. It provides a subjective source of quality differentiation …

This paper examines the entwined nature–culture relationship within the context of the
Burren. The Burren, situated on the west coast of Ireland, is a high value landscape in terms …

A comprehensive analysis is presented of the development of tourism in both the Irish
Republic and Northern Ireland. While more emphasis is placed on the recent policy milieu …

Since the publication of the Brundtland Report, Our common future (1987), there has been a
proliferation of guidelines on sustainability in rural areas at the international level that have …

Tourism is an increasingly significant part of contemporary culture. This paper weaves new
ideas in the theoretical interpretation of tourism, culture, and the environment together with a …

Teagasc's Rural Economy Research Centre (RERC) and Rural Development Advisory Unit
initiated a research project in 2006 to investigate the 'Barriers to Change'experienced by …

The well-being of rural people and places is shaped in part by the ways in which local
communities and areas where people live are organised, and the ways in which these local …