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Abstract The issues that surround rural development and also the development of rural tourism are vast and are currently being reviewed and developed. There is a growing understanding among rural communities that they, the people, and the land are the two most outstanding natural resources that Northern Ireland possesses. These two resources give Northern Ireland its two natural industries, tourism and agriculture. It is in realising, in the past decade, that rural tourism may have …

…data. Chapter Seven provides the results and discussion of the respondents interviewed by the author during the course of the study. Six respondents were interviewed, all having some impact on the development of rural tourism and also involved in different sectors of the industry. Chapter Eight provides a report of the main conclusions drawn from the research carried out and also recommendations regarding aspects of the study which the author feels may require further attention.