Ireland Travel and Tourism

According to Tourism Ireland, 7.68 million overseas visitors came to Ireland in 2004. Tourism is worth an estimated 4.4 billion ($5.2 billion) to the Irish economy. Since Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Google, and other American companies started running European operations in Ireland, one of the continent s poorest nations has transformed into one of its wealthiest with a higher gross domestic product per head of population than Great Britain, according to a recent issue of "Smithsonian (March 2005). Ireland has never been more in demand: with hot new restaurants and hotels sprouting up like weeds; Irish expatriates returning home in droves; and young natives staying put (460f the population is under the age of 25) and finding ripe opportunity at home; and an unprecedented number of foreign visitors. Ireland also has never been pricier, making this book indispensable, especially for younger travelers.

This book examines comparative performance and best practice in tourism, national tourism organisations/administrations. It compares qualitative and quantitative data in order to ascertain best performance. Analysis is contained in detail for nine countries considered of comparable merit: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the UK. Each country is examined and analysed in the following key areas: Travel and Tourism Performance, Organisation of Tourism, The NTO Structure, Role, Staffing and Offices, Resources and Funding as well as providing case studies of good practice. The book includes methodology of the research and provides discussion and comment of main roles and success formula in comparable NTOs. 7 Useful, up-to-date and practical guide to governments' involvement in tourism over the past decade or more. 7 Brings insight from both the academic and practitioner markets.

Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism (Ireland) - The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism is the senior minister at the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism (An Roinn Ealaíon Spóirt agus Turasóireachta) in the Irish Government. The current Minister is John O'Donoghue, TD.

Gay tourism - Gay tourism is a form of niche tourism marketed to gays who have an openly gay lifestyle and who wish to travel to gay travel destinations in order to participate to some extent in the gay life of the destination area. As an industry it has some substantial maturity, and includes such gay tourism specialists as travel agents, tour companies, cruise lines and travel advertising and promotions companies who market these destinations to gays.

Virtual tourism - Virtual tourism refers to exploring other areas in the world without having to physically travel. It is done using the internet, travel literature (travel guides and travelogues), and television.

Common Travel Area - The Common Travel Area or, informally the passport free zone, refers to the fact that citizens of the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey) may travel between their countries without a passport. There is no formal agreement between Ireland and UK regarding the common travel area, although the Common Travel Area is provided for in the Immigration Act, 1971 (UK).

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