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As we have tried to understand the regional airlines and their current use of automation, it has become clear that there are enough differences between the regional airlines and the transport airlines that research focusing specifically on their needs is required. We have also discovered how difficult it is to define the needs for addressing automation-related topics without better understanding our definitions of automation and how it affects pilot performance. We developed an expanded pilot general task list and definitions of the three categories of automation to help us accomplish our research goals and found that their use results a better methodology for us to explore automation effects and translate them to the needs of the regional airlines.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prospects of Belfast as a Tourism City with a special focus on dark (troubles) tourism.

This paper uses two surveys – one for overseas-based potential tourists and one for Northern Ireland residents; one focus group with potential tourists; and three interviews, one with a Belfast MP and two with tour-guide operators, one from each side of the Northern Ireland divide. This paper is less theoretical than exploratory.

Generally, there is strong and widespread support for the concept of troubles tourism. Stakeholders must ensure that troubles tourism is intelligently and sensitively handled and builds up communities.

This is a relatively new and under-researched area. Belfast has been rarely looked at in urban-tourism studies. Findings have applicability for other post-conflict and divided countries, such as the countries of the former Yugoslavia.