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.