Tourism employs nearly 150 thousand people and the total income from tourism was 4 billion euros in 2008.

Tourism employs nearly 150 thousand people and the total income from tourism was 4 billion euros in 2008.

In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that " the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples ' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today.

In 2008 Bulgaria was visited by 8. 9 million tourists, as outlined by the World Tourism Organization.

A 2002 summit held in Quebec led to the 2008 Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria, a collaborative effort between the UN Foundation and other advocacy groups.

Tourism in Japan attracted 8. 3 million foreign visitors in 2008, slightly more than Singapore and Ireland.

As of 2008, Norway ranks 17th in the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report.

The Competitiveness Team produces a range of annual economic reports ( first published in brackets ): the Global Competitiveness Report ( 1979 ) measures competitiveness of countries and economies ; The Global Information Technology Report ( 2001 ) assesses their competitiveness based on their IT readiness ; the Global Gender Gap Report examines critical areas of inequality between men and women ; the Global Risks Report ( 2006 ) assesses key global risks ; the Global Travel and Tourism Report ( 2007 ) measures travel and tourism competitiveness and the Global Enabling Trade Report ( 2008 ) presents a cross-country analysis of the large number of measures facilitating trade between nations.

Raqs Sharqi performance on a Tourism in Egypt | tourist Nile cruise ship in 2008.

She held the position of Minister of State ( Small Business and Tourism ) from October 30, 2008, Secretary of State ( Small Business and Tourism ) from August 14, 2007, and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from February 2006.

In September 2008 he became Convener of the Scottish Parliament ’ s influential Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee.

* University College Birmingham, Known as Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies until January 2008

Other grass roots efforts to make " Sweet Home Alabama " ( 1974 ) by Lynyrd Skynyrd the State Song have also failed, but the song's potential official status made a comeback when the State Tourism Agency chose the song as the centerpiece of its 2008 marketing campaign.

Following Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle of 3 October 2008, Follett was made Minister of Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport replacing Margaret Hodge who went on compassionate leave caring for her ill husband.

ZoukOut has also won the Singapore Tourism Board ’ s “ Best Leisure Event Experience ” award thrice, between 2005 and 2008.

In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that " the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Resistance is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples ' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today.

According to the „ Statistical Report on Tourism in Laos 2008 “ by the „ Lao National Tourism Administration “, the number of tourists has increased from approximately 18. 600 to 102. 000 from 2001 to 2008.

Furthermore, in early 2008, after the Israeli Tourism Ministry opened up the airline market, the airline applied for scheduled carrier status for routes to Barcelona, Berlin, Moscow, and Paris.

Cullen was a member of Seanad Éireann ( 1989 – 1992 ) and served as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government ( 2002 – 2004 ), Minister for Transport ( 2004 – 2007 ) and Minister for Social and Family Affairs ( 2007 – 2008 ) and as Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism from 2008 – 2010.

" Conquering the Landscape ( Gary Sherman explores the life of the great American trailblazer, John Frank Stevens )", History Magazine, July 2008.

( 2008 ) Despoblado or Athapaskan Heartland: A Methodological Perspective on Ancestral Apache Landscape Use in the Safford Area.

In 2008, the LI launched a major recruitment drive entitled " I want to be a Landscape Architect " to encourage the study of Landscape Architecture.

Landscape architecture has been identified as an above-average growth profession by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and was listed in U. S. News & World Reports list of Best Jobs to Have in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Respondents to the Pew Research Center's U. S. Religious Landscape Survey of 2008 included members of LCMS and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) These results do not follow the official doctrinal statements of the respective church bodies.

Walker has a 2008 Landscape Painting on display at the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. in the Modern Section.

Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art ( 2008 )

Results from the Pew Research Center U. S. Religious Landscape Survey of 2008:

During this period he lived with the French poet Pierre Martory, whose books Every Question but One ( 1990 ), The Landscape Is behind the door ( 1994 ) and The Landscapist he has translated ( 2008 ), as he has Jean Perrault ( Camouflage ), Max Jacob ( The Dice Cup ), Pierre Reverdy and Raymond Roussel.

* " Conquering the Landscape " ( Gary Sherman explores the life of the great North American trailblazer, John Frank Stevens ), History Magazine, July 2008.

These include the American Trails Developer Award, 2008 ; Best Master-Planned Community Award, Best of Nevada Real Estate Awards, 2007 ; New Community of the Year, Awards for Excellence, Urban Land Institute, 2002 ; National Landmark for Outstanding Landscape Architecture, American Society of Landscape Architects, 1999 ; and Best New Town Land Plan Award, Pacific Coast Builders Conference, 1993.

* Michael Charlesworth, Landscape and Vision ( Ashgate, 2008 ), Chapter One.

Stipanowich, " The Arbitration Penumbra: Arbitration Law and the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Dispute Resolution " Legal Studies Working Paper Series, Paper Number 2008 / 1, 30 Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming.

* Manifest Destiny / Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape ( May 17 – August 10, 2008 )

* Contrary Rhetoric: Lectures on Landscape and Language ( 2008 )

* Billy Colfer, Wexford: A Town and its Landscape ( Irish Rural Landscape Series ), Cork, Cork University Press, 2008.

Rockman traveled to Antarctica in 2008 with Dorothy Spears, and works resulting from this voyage were featured in the " Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape " exhibit at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Designs for Black Hole Landscape, IUCAA, Pune, India, 2002 ; Portello Park, Milan 2002-7 ( Time Garden 2004-7 ); Two Cells – Inverness Maggie's Centre, 2003-5 ; Northumberlandia Landform, 2004 ; Cells of Life, Bonnington House 2005 – 2009 ; Crawick Landforms, 2006-; Memories of the Future, Altdobern, Landform and reclamation project, Germany ; Wu Chi, Black Hole Oval Terrace, Beijing Olympic Park, 2008 and Scotloch, The Fife Earth Project, Kelty, Scotland, 2003, 2010 +.

In 2008, the Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape, covering roughly 80 % of the National Monument, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In the Fall of 2008, Belchertown State School campus was the focus of an interdisciplinary studio done by 30 graduate students within the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

* 2008 Landscape Institute Award, Landscape Institute, UK

* Dual ( album ), an album of traditional Scottish and Irish music recorded by Éamonn Doorley, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Julie Fowlis and Ross Martin, released 2008

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

* Edited by Ruán O ’ Donnell, The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations, Irish Academic Press Dublin 2008, ISBN 978-0-7165-2965-1

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

This order was complied with, but when firearms owners returned to reclaim their firearms, they were informed that their licences had expired while their firearms were in custody ( Irish firearms licences until 2008 were issued for a period of one year, and all licences were usually dealt with at the same time, usually at the start of August, though the date has changed over the years ).

Sport and the Irish Diaspora: Emigrants at Play ( 2008 )

Since the 2008 onset of the Irish economic and banking crisis, however, the country's economy has suffered, and since then Ireland has experienced net emigration once again.

* 1923 – Patrick Hillery, Irish politician ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Dubliners ) ( d. 2008 )

Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.

John O ' Brien, Irish priest and musician ( d. 2008 )

** Nuala O ' Faolain, Irish journalist and author ( d. 2008 )

** Ronnie Drew, Irish Dubliner Band Singer ( d. 2008 )

In an economic analysis, the Economic and Social Research Institute ( ESRI ) on June 24, 2008 forecast that there was a possibility the Irish economy would experience marginal negative growth in 2008.

Outlining possible prospects for the economy for 2008, the ESRI said output of goods and services may fall that year — which would be the Irish definition of a mild recession.

The South-West region comprising counties Cork and Kerry contribute € 24, 877 billion ($ 39. 3 billion USD )( 2005 values ; 2008 exchange rate ) towards the Irish GDP.

In December 2008, a number of Irish news sources reported testing had revealed " extremely high " levels of dioxins, by toxic equivalent, in pork products, ranging from 80 to 200 times the EU's upper safe limit of 1. 5 pg WHO-TEQ < sub > DFP </ sub >/ μg i. e. 0. 12 to 0. 3 parts per billion.

While the contamination was limited to just 9 pig farms, the Irish government requested the immediate withdrawal and disposal of all pork-containing products produced in Ireland and purchased since 1 September 2008.

* 2008: Articulations, Royal Irish Academy

More recently, dioxins have been in the news with the poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine in 2004, the Naples Mozzarella Crisis the Irish pork crisis of 2008, and the German feed incident of 2010.

Louth Contemporary Music Society invited the US composer Terry Riley to perform in Drogheda in 2007, Arvo Pärt's first Irish commission and visit to the country was in Drogheda in February 2008, Michael Nyman performed in Drogheda in May 2008, John Tavener's Temenos festival was held in October 2008 and the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was the focus of a portrait concert as part of the Drogheda Arts festival on 1 May 2009.

In 2008, Irish MEP Eoin Ryan called for tighter regulation over tokens and medals that are being increasingly used for small purchases mainly in vending machines across Europe.