Creating Irish Tourism

<p>Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers ‘Creating  Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later. The work shows how the Irish tourist experience evolved out of the interactions among travel writers landlords and visitors with the peasants who as guides jarvies venders porters and beggars were as much a part of Irish tourism as the scenery itself.</p>