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| 30 Apr 2008 01:08:07 pm |
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www.laviadellenergia.it
I found the above website to be a very good working model. It examines
themes to do with energy ranging from the very general (Energy, the Big Bang, Theory of Relatively)
to the specific (natural resources and industrial heritage of Lombardy, Italy, the concept of industrial/
power plant tourism) Content is accessible through simple navigation system, keywords and glossary.
Industrial tourism in Co.Leitrim
'The Energy Way' describes the origins of tourism in general,
they go on to discuss the emerging trend of power plant tourism
in relation to the development of industrial tourism.
The site of the former E.S.B (coal fueled) power plant, Arigna.
'A novel way to discover and appreciate an area, helping visitors see the region through the lens of industrial development. However, even though these sites are of great architectural, historic, environmental, technical, and scientific importance, they are still relatively unknown and seldom visited.
Our website, The Way of Energy, is primarily geared towards students and teachers, but it can also help raise interest among Italian and foreign tourists who want to learn more about the history of our region’s impressive industrial development. The website provides travel itineraries that combine visits to Lombardy’s power plants, with stops at other artistic, historic, natural, and gastronomic tourist sites.
These proposed itineraries are perfect examples of industrial tourism, which first emerged as a distinct subcategory of tourism towards the end of the 1990s. Since that time, industrial tourism has become a popular method of learning about and appreciating other cultures. Industrial tourism encompasses visits to a wide range of tourist sites including: corporate archives and museums; manufacturing plants; banks, insurance companies, chambers of commerce, and other centers of economic activity; transportation infrastructure; community buildings; and "industrial villages", all of which contain examples of "industrial archeology".' |
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| Posted By : Elaine |  Comments[100] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 31 Mar 2008 09:47:25 am |
| Idiosyncratic Seaside Architecture |
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Bundoran, photos by Sarah Browne, last weekend of March, 2008 |
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Category : tourism
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| 25 Feb 2008 04:23:50 pm |
| Lovely Leitrim, part 2 (2005) |
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Twenty years after the Lovely Leitrim film (images posted in the 'tourism' category), Leitrim County Council have updated their tourist advertising. The result is Leitrim: Take a Closer Look, produced by Wren Productions in 2005 (www.wrenrecords.ie). Curiously, like the earlier version, it too is narrated by Paschal Mooney.
The most notable thing about this film is unfortunately the poor production values (grainy DV quality, kitschy Celtic script for titles). The editing was really jerky and irritating – shots lasted 3 seconds on average and the longest shot I noticed was around 11 seconds.
Additions from the earlier version included The Organic Centre, ‘the smallest church in Europe’ in Carrick-on-Shannon, and Ardnahoo Health Farm. The B&B ladies in the style of ‘bean an tí’ from the earlier video had been removed in favour of luxury hotels. Other than that, any evidence of development, regeneration etc. is absent.
The most curious things about the video are the half hearted superlatives and encouragements used to entice visitors:
Carrick is ‘the cruising capital of Ireland’;
the county is ‘certainly worth looking at’;
‘definitely worth trying’, even.
Leitrim: Take a Closer Look, 2005, is available from the County Library in Ballinamore. |
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| 12 Jan 2008 06:07:26 pm |
| Lovely Leitrim, 1984 |
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