Creating Irish tourism the first century, 1750-1850 - Williams, William H. A. (Anthem Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Getting there and getting about -- Tours grand and petite -- Property, class and Irish tourism -- The sublime and the picturesque in the Irish landscape -- Picturesque tourist sites in Ireland -- The tourist experience -- Killarney : a case study of the Irish tourist experience -- Tourist semeiotics, stereotypes and the search for the exotic -- On the road : in search of Ireland -- The famine and after
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