Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 14
Understanding motivations of older adventurers.
(Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019-06)
Globally the population is ageing, people are living longer and birth rates continue to decline. While an ageing population is viewed as a positive societal achievement, reporting of the exponentially ageing demographic ...
Exploring ageing, research methods & adventure activity: the potential of outdoor adventure activity (OAA) to engage older adults in appropriate levels of physical activity (PA).
(AIT/TU Dublin, 2019-05)
Globally the population is ageing, people are living longer and birth rates continue to decline. While an ageing population is viewed as a positive societal achievement, reporting of the exponentially ageing demographic ...
Culinary entrepreneurship in Ireland: back to the future
(AISSMS CHMCT, 2019-02)
Adventure, leisure and SMART approaches in tourism for the changing global and Irish demographic.
(Waterford Institute of Technology, 2018-06)
The following is initial primary research undertaken to assist with refining the research question
for a part time PhD study. Specifically, it explores the perceptions and attitudes of both the ageing demographic and ...
The current state of cooking in Ireland: the relationship between cooking skills and food choice.
(Athlone Institute of Technology, 2011-06)
This research investigated the attitudes of Irish people to food to ascertain whether the
acquisition of cooking skills influences food choice. Caraher et al. (1999) report on the
state of cooking in England noted that ...
Mark Twain and the Innocents Abroad: illuminating the tourist gaze on death
(Emerald, 2013-08-02)
Purpose
In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to ...
Beauty versus tragedy: thanatourism and the memorialization of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)
Almost 20 years after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda remains confronted with the complexity of an enduring reconciliation process; a process both enabled and complicated by the arrival and increase of international tourism to ...
'Welcome to the home of Auschwitz tours': The online marketing of genocide tourism
(Advances in Tourism Marketing, 2013-10)
This chapter explores the online promotion by private tour operators of the World War Two Nazi
extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland. The chapter contributes to
understanding how genocide is ...
The geographies of thanatourism
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-08-11)
This article explores the geographies of thanatourism, a form of travel where tourists encounter places associated with death, disaster and the macabre. It seeks to encourage geographers' engagement with thanatourism to ...
Places, practices and (soft) power
(Sage, 2019-11)
This special issue explores places, practices and (soft) power to examine issues pertinent to socio-economic inclusion and exclusion. Through the evaluation of these topics, further insight is offered on social, cultural ...