Browsing Faculty of Business & Hospitality: Midlands by Title
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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 ... -
AIT students live digital marketing projects.
(Irish Independent with THEA, 2019-11-28)Athlone Institute of Technology is once again partnering with Midlands-based companies to help them fill their digital marketing resource gaps using final year students’ knowledge of cutting-edge digital marketing methods ... -
An assessment of the relationship between reward management and employee motivation in a sports retail outlet store in the midland region.
(2013)The concept of total rewards has been the subject of much discussion in the past with confusion existing about what the term actually means. According to World at Work (2010), total rewards are all of the tools used 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 ... -
The Boomerang study: increased hospital re-admission via the emergency department
(Irish Medical Organisation, 2021-01)Aims This research was performed to assess if a reduced length of hospital stay was associated with in-creased re-attendances to, and re-admissions from, the Emergency Department (ED). Methods Inpatient discharge and ED ... -
Brand activation in thanatourism: a comparative study of the Bram Stoker Festival and the Whitby Goth Weekend
(Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)The life and work of Dubliner Bram Stoker influenced a niche tourism product popularly consumed today - gothic festivals. Gothic or “dark tourism” (thanatourism) festivals attract high spending tourists, usually in ... -
Brexit anticipated economic shock on Ireland's planning for hospitality and tourism: resilience, volatility and exposure.
(Emerald, 2020-01-22)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore tourism scenario planning for an anticipated shock as viewed through the lens of Irish hospitality managers preparing for Brexit. The research appropriates a climate science ... -
Brexit, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and the environment: issues arising and possible solutions.
(Environmental Pillar/Northern Ireland Environment Link, 2019-04)This report sets out to examine cross-border environmental co-operation and joint action on the environment facilitated by the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, and what role if any the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement will have ... -
Changes to the environmental impact regime in Ireland.
(Inshore Ireland, 2016)The Amending EIA Directive 2014/521/EU will take effect on May 16 2017. It will substantially change how Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is conducted in Ireland. This article outlines some of the changes it will make ... -
Chef shortage: an analysis of the skills drain in the Irish hospitality sector of 2017
(2017)So, you want to be a chef? Your hands will be continuously be cut, burned, skinned. An open book about your life in a kitchen. Your back will be painful all your life. You will always be under pressure, you will be ... -
Coming down the tracks: anticipated changes to the environmental impact assessment regime as a result of the Directive 2014/52/EU and the Aarhus Convention
(Lawtext Publishing, 2016-10)This paper outlines the main changes introduced by the amending Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2014/52/EU, and considers what these changes will mean for operators on the ground in Ireland and England when the ... -
Conflict and chaos: a case study of Ireland's Covid-19 outbound travel market
(WSB University in Poznań, 2021)During the COVID-19 pandemic the international outbound travel market from Ireland collapsed, declining at one point by 94%. This case study paper explores the environment which framed the collapse in travel, positioning ... -
The correlation between sustainable plastic adoption and business sustainability in the food packaging sector
(Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)Ireland is producing the most plastic waste per person in Europe (Statista Research Department, 2021). Approximately 40 % of all plastic produced in Ireland goes to the food packaging sector (EESC, 2020). In order to ... -
Cross-institutional development of sharable learning technology tools for flexible accounting education
(EADTU, 2015-10)This paper describes a collaboration between three Irish Institutes of Technology to develop a series of sharable, e-learning resources to support students learn introductory aspects of financial accounting. It describes ... -
Culinary entrepreneurship in Ireland: back to the future
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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 ... -
Dark Sky Eco Tourism Guide
(Dark Sky Ecotourism, 2023)The dark sky evokes basic human emotions and connects us all to the human story, of how we watch the dark sky, tell and create stories about the stars in the sky and beings in the dark With the deterioration of the ... -
Digital advantage framework for growth and competitiveness in small and medium enterprises
(Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)Many aspects of daily life have dramatically changed in recent years with the adoption of new technologies, which is reflected in the business world in what is referred to as the fourth industrial revolution (or Industry ... -
Digital advantage framework for growth and compettitiveness in small and medium enterprises
(Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-06)All companies now operate in an increasingly digital world, however, Small and Medium sized Enterprises ( face different challenges when compared with Multinational Enterprises ( Financial resources, use of advanced ... -
Doing good for other people and the planet and/or obsessed with your career? Personal value orientation as a predictor for internal CSR preferences of young professionals
(WU Vienna/University of Augsberg, 2022-03-17)In striving for sustainability success in organizations, the proactive behaviour of employees in times of irreversible climate change is of great importance: employees with an awareness of sustainability and their subsequent ...
