Report on Travel and Tourism: Dublin's Industry and Hotel Planning

This report offers a comprehensive overview of the travel and tourism sector in Dublin, Ireland. It begins with an introduction highlighting the economic and social significance of the tourism industry, emphasizing its growth and impact on job creation. The report then delves into the services available in Dublin, categorizing them into accommodation, attractions, amenities, accessibility, activities, and ancillary services, providing definitions and examples for each. The analysis extends to the roles of various organizations in hospitality and tourism, differentiating between private, public, and voluntary sectors and their respective contributions. Furthermore, the report addresses the approaches and planning processes required for new hotel development in Dublin, outlining key steps such as idea inception, refinement, feasibility studies, contract negotiations, construction, and asset management. The report concludes by summarizing the importance of accessibility and the contributions of various organizations to the development of the tourism sector. The report also includes a detailed list of references.

UNDERSTAND TRAVEL
AND TOURISM

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
Task 2 ..............................................................................................................................................3
Various organizations and their roles in hospitality and tourism................................................3
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................4
Approaches and planning process required for new hotel development in the city....................4
Major steps that needs to be considered as part of planning.......................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Travel and tourism plays an important role in each and every nation which brings the
economic and social development. The Irish tourism industry has grown considerably in scale.
With a total value of tourism earnings of €7.3 billion, the number of overseas visitors increased
almost fivefold with visitor numbers going up to 6.68 million with €1.95 billion spend in the year
2015. More than 30,000 jobs have been created since 2011. The report covers the various
services available in the Dublin and three main sectors such as private, public and voluntary with
their roles in hospitality and tourism.
Task 1
The Following table which included each category, a definition examples and overview of the
products and services are available in Dublin.
Definition Examples Overview
Accommodation:
It is another crucial aspect
within tour management
services and thus it directly
impact upon the cost and
pricing of the tour package.
Here, tour operators arranges
for the specific
accommodation service
required by the guests. It all
depends upon the consumers
interest and thus providing
best service helps in increasing
chance of selecting the same
service provider at the time of
next visit in the Dublin.
Hotels
Villas
Resorts
Cottages
Dublin has various kinds of
accommodation from cheep
and cheerful to the most
beautiful five star hotel as per
the budget of the visitors. They
provide free WiFi and different
services.
Attractions: Castles and Stately homes Dublin have various
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It can be define as the various
places or destination in the
nation are the attraction for
tourist. It can be culture or
values of country or historic
places.
Museum and Galleries
Churches and Cathedrals
Parks and Wildlife
Landmark and Historical Sites
Shopping
Food.
destination which was major
tourist attraction. The nation
museum of Ireland decorative
arts and history.
Amenities:
It can be define as the various
services facilities available for
tourist in the nation which is
provided by the government or
the travel and tourist operator
to the visitors(Inwood, 2012).
Elevators (lifts), wi-fi,
restaurants, parks, communal
areas, swimming pools, golf
courses, health club facilities,
party rooms, theatre or media
rooms, bike paths or garages,
In the Dublin annual theatre
festival is one of the highlights
of the city culture calendar
which offer 18 days and night
of lie performance shows.
Accessibility:
It can be define as the mode of
transport or facility available
for the tourist to access one
place to other destinations.
Airport
Buses
Taxis
Trains
Dublin bus is the main public
transport which provide for
great Dublin area more of the
fleet are made up of lo level
floor vehicles which have
single wheelchair spaces fits
standard wheelchair of up to
70cm wide and 120cm height.
Motbability Ireland will
provide car on rent to the
tourist.
Activities:
It can be define as the different
activities and festival which
are organised by local and
regional people for tourist.
Jump zone
Hollystown golf club
In the Dublin tourist visited
Europe largest indoor
trampoline park which have
200 wall trampolines in
between the two facilitates
with bouncing off walls.
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Ancillary Services
It can be define as service
given by tour operators or the
government provides
additional services to
customers for bring their
journey more peaceful.
Financial, insurance and travel
consultation and applications
etc., as per the needs of
tourists.
Dublin develop mobile
applications for the visitor to
track the location of
destination.
Task 2
Various organizations and their roles in hospitality and tourism.
In each and every nation there are various kinds of organization are available which
contribute in the economic and social development. While other firm which makes a positive
impact to develop hospitality and tourism. Dublin have different kinds of organisations such as
fallows:
Private: These are the organisation is the part of nation economic growth which was operated by
single owner and firm rather than government. The aim of this organisation to maximise profits.
Abrakebabra Investment is the consumer services industry organisation from the food retailer a
wholesaler. The main role of this organisation is hospitality and tourism which is an restaurant
holding firm provide various services to the tourist. These are the organisation who provide hotel
and various resort which can be attracted areas for the visitors. Therefore, private organisation
will fill the gap between se4rvices which are not provided by other or government firms.
Public: These are the organisation which are main power in the hand of government or run by
the supreme bodies of government (Hultman, 2015). For instance all the defiance, infrastructure
provide by the these organisations. The role in hospitality and tourism industry of by public
organisation have major contribution which gives higher services to the tourist by providing
effective transportation and infrastructure which can be used by visitors easily. The Adelaide and
Meath Hospital, Dublin, Incorporating the National Children’s Hospital is a public organisation
of the Dublin.
Voluntary organizations: These are the organisation are mainly non profit firm and provide the
various services to their society development in terms of free education, health and other
epidemic services to save the nations. In the Dublin this organisation contributing in a positive
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manner which is the important part for nation development. The one of the largest voluntary
organisation is Dublin city Voluntary centre. This are the firm will provide the various services
related to hospitality and tourism sector such as cheap rooms. Free health support to the visitors
and provide help to the tourist if any epidemic or circumstance arise in the nation which can not
be control by government at that time Voluntary organizations plays an important role in
development of nations. The aim of such organization to give their services to society
development and they don't have aim of earning profits.
Task 3
Approaches and planning process required for new hotel development in the city.
Sustainable development has been analyses as major issues and key strategy in Hotel
industry business. It is most power tool that organizations used to drive the innovation and earn
profits while taking various action to provide better future for next generation.
 Idea / inception: For new hotel development in Dublin, it is essential to develop different
ideas as per requirements of Hotel. As per the given scenario, it is analyzed there is an
increase in demand of hotels in Dublin city because of continuous rise in tourist arrival in
country. In this, a unique hotel develop ideas will be formulated to make a complete
planning.
 Idea refinement: After generation of various ideas, the next process is ideas refinement
which is simple and effective ways to make the ideas more practical and viable as well as
more appealing to those who are funding the innovation project (Kim, Eves and Scarles,
2013).
 Feasibility: It is another step in which possibility and effectiveness of implementation of
new hotel development idea will be analyzed.
 Contract negotiations: At this stage, contract has been made with construction companies
and negotiations has been done on terms of contracts.
 Commitment point: In this, products and services which are offered in hotel will
determine to the construction company. So that they will develop the rooms and design
the hotel accordingly.
 Construction: It is development stage in which the idea will be implemented in terms of
construction of hotel. Proper place for construction of hotel will be decided to start the
operations.
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 Initiation of operations : After deciding place, hotel development operations will get
started and completed within specified time duration.
 Asset management: It is important stage in which the assets which are acquired by the
hotel will be managed every year in order to make an analysis of their value.
Major steps that needs to be considered as part of planning.
There are five mainly five major steps that needs to be undertaken as part of planning for
development of hotel in Dublin city, Ireland.
 Design concept: This step of planning for hotel development involves development of
unique concept and designing those concepts so that an effective business plan can be
made.
 Design development: Proper design of Hotel will be made that involves design, feature of
hotel rooms and attractive lawns etc. infrastructure and attractive which are designed for
hotel must be explained in planning document (Laws, 2016).
 Contract documentation: After development of design, a construction company will be
selected and contract has been made with them for development of hotel. Overall
planning and procedures which are made earlier will be delegated to them (López-Toro,
Díaz-Muñoz and Perez-Moreno, 2010).
 Construction period: It is stage in which contraction process started and all the operations
are carried out as per plan and structure which was designed in the development stage.
CONCLUSION
From the report understand travel and tourism it can be easily concluded that
Accessibility is the important aspect for nation development of tourism sector. Every nation
there are various kinds of organization are available which contribute in the economic and social
development. While other firm which makes a positive impact to develop hospitality and
tourism.
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Inwood, J.F., 2012. Sweet Auburn: Constructing Atlanta's Auburn Avenue as a heritage tourist
destination. Urban Geography. 31(5). pp.573-594.
Kim, Y.G., Eves, A. and Scarles, C., 2013. Empirical verification of a conceptual model of local
food consumption at a tourist destination. International journal of hospitality management. 33.
pp.484-489.
Laws, E., 2016. Tourist destination governance: Practice, theory and issues. Cabi.
López-Toro, A.A., Díaz-Muñoz, R. and Perez-Moreno, S., 2010. An assessment of the quality of
a tourist destination: The case of Nerja, Spain. Total Quality Management. 21(3). pp.269-289.
Online
Dublin Tourist Informations 2018 [online] Access through <http://www.tourist-information-
dublin.co.uk/attractions/>
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