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From: [e-mail] (Brian Lucas)
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Subject: Directory of travel information available via internet
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Summary: A list of internet information sources - mailing lists,
    ftp sites, listservs, etc - of interest to travellers.
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Archive-name: travel/online-info


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SOURCES OF ON-LINE TRAVEL INFORMATION
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Last revision: 04 December 1993

This is a list of online travel information resources available via the
internet.  Mail additions or corrections to [e-mail].
The instructions for obtaining copies of the documents listed here follow
the URL (Universal Resource Locator) format, which is basically
"method://site.name/filepath".

For example, "ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/online-info" means
"do anonymous ftp to the site ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca, and get the file
rec-travel/online-info".  Gopher URLs do not always correspond to the menu
tree you see, so gopher information is listed twice wherever possible.


GNN Travel Resource Centre
--------------------------
 http://nearnet.gnn.com/mkt/travel/center.html

 Available only via WWW browser, the GNN Travel Resource Centre is a
 good collection of information for people planning trips anywhere in
 the world.  It includes an extensive index to information available all
 over the Internet, with some exclusive features like an up-to-date currency
 exchange table, excerpts from the Travelers' Tales book series, and features
 like the current-events World Travel Watch column.

Travel Library / rec.travel archive
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 ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel
 WWW users: ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/README.html

 The Travel Library at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca is a collection of travelogues,
 guides, and FAQs written by volunteers on the net.  It began as an archive
 site for the rec.travel newsgroup, and emphasizes personal advice,
 recommendations, and opinions, providing a different perspective from that
 given by many travel books.  Approximately 13 MB of documents are stored
 locally; information is organized geographically and includes pointers to
 other information available on the net.


Other Resources
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Airplane tickets, cheap
 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/travel/air/cheap-tickets
 http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/travel/air/
 cheap-tickets/top.html

Beaches, clothing-optional
 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/nude/
 http://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/nude/

Bookstores
 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/arts/books/*
 http://www.cis.ohio-state/hypertext/faq/usenet/books/stores.top.html

Caribbean Travel Roundup
 ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/caribbean/travel-roundup
 ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/caribbean/travel-roundup/CTR-Index.html
 CTR is a monthly newsletter published by Paul Graveline
 <[e-mail]>.  Back issues are available here.

CIA World Factbook
 ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/literary/obi/World.Factbook/
 ftp://nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/misc/cia_world_factbook_1992.Z
 ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/doc/geography/world-factbook.Z
 ftp://world.std.com/obi/World.Factbook/
 gopher://info.umd.edu:901/11/info/Government/Factbook92
 Gopher info.umd.edu...Desk Reference...1992 World...
 This includes such things as population stats, info about government
 (names of heads of state and so on), economy, U.S. embassies, and more.

Geographic Server
 telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000
 You type in the name of a (USA) city and are rewarded with information
 such as population, latitude, longitude, elevation, zip code....  A few
 major cities outside the USA are included.

Omni-Cultural Academic Resource
 ftp://ftp.stolaf.edu/gopher/Internet Resources/St. Olaf Sponsored
Mailing Lists/Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource
 gopher://gopher.stolaf.edu:70/1/1/Internet Resources/St. Olaf
Sponsored Mailing Lists/Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource
 OCAR is an archive intended to concentrate on 'foreign' (i.e. non-USA)
 culture.  Includes some general travel information in the directory
 'Going-Places'.  Maintained by Craig D. Rice <[e-mail]>.

soc.culture.* FAQs:
 ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/soc/culture/
 Many of the soc.culture newsgroups have a FAQ which includes some travel
 information, or contact people.  Read the faq if you can, either by ftp,
 by reading the soc.culture newsgroup itself, or reading news.answers.
 Please restrain yourself from posting a request for information to the
 newsgroup before having read the FAQ and having spent a few days at least
 reading the traffic on the newsgroup to get a feel for appropriate topics.


TRAVEL-L mailing list
 A BITNET mailing list similar in goals to rec.travel.  To subscribe,
 send a mail message to [e-mail] consisting of the line:
 "subscribe travel-l firstname lastname", substituting your own first
 and last names.  Mailing list traffic is archived.  To get an index,
 send a mail message "index travel-l".  To get a file mailed to you,
 send a mail message "send travel-l log9111", subsituting the name of
 the log file you want.

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Brian Lucas
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