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- Subject: Directory of travel information available via internet
- Newsgroups: rec.travel.asia,rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.misc,rec.travel.usa-canada,rec.answers,news.answers
- From: lucas@cc.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas)
- Date: 25 Oct 1994 09:00:08 GMT
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- Archive-name: travel/online-info
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- THE INTERNET'S TOP COLLECTIONS OF ON-LINE TRAVEL INFORMATION
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- Rec.travel Library
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- http://www.digimark.net/rec-travel/
- ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/home.html
- The Rec.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 15 MB
- of documents are stored locally; information is organized
- geographically and includes pointers to other information available on
- the net.
-
- Depending on where you are, you may get better network performance
- through one of the mirror sites:
- * Singapore gopher://gopher.technet.sg:2100/11/pub/NUS/misc/travel
- * Singapore ftp solomon.technet.sg and look in /pub/NUS/misc/travel
- * Thailand http://www.nectec.or.th/rec-travel/readme.HTML
- * Thailand ftp ftp.nectec.or.th and look in /pub/mirrors/rec-travel
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- GNN Travel Centre
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- http://nearnet.gnn.com/meta/travel/index.html
- A good collection of pointers to information available all over the
- Internet. It features up-to-date currency exchange rates, pointers to
- many resources, and regular columns by professional and amateur travel
- writers. These include the World Travel Watch weekly column by the
- editors of the Travelers' Tales books, James O'Reilly and Larry
- Habegger, a series of reports sent back by two people currently
- travelling around the world ( Big World), and several others.
-
- Depending on where you are, you may get better network performance
- through one of the mirror sites:
- * Australia / Bond University
- http://bond.edu.au/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * Canada / British Columbia
- http://www.wimsey.com/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * Canada / Nova Scotia
- http://quasar.sba.dal.ca:2000/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * Germany http://www.germany.eu.net:8000/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * Ireland http://www.iol.ie/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * Japan http://www.ntt.jp/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * Russia http://www.elvis.msk.su/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * UK http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * USA / California http://www.digital.com/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
- * USA / North Carolina
- http://gnn.interpath.net/gnn/meta/travel/index.html
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- Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
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- http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/lucas/travel/tourism-offices.html or .txt
- A searchable directory of over 700 tourist information centres around
- the world.
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- The Virtual Tourist
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- http://wings.buffalo.edu/world/
- This is the top level of the "Virtual Tourist" project, an attempt to
- build a tree of World Wide Web servers with tourism-related
- information, and a list of all Web servers in the world, using local
- sites which have been selected as the authoritative registries for
- their regions.
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- CIA World Factbook
- The CIA World Factbook contains detailed statistics and factual
- information about every country in the world. Here are a few of
- the many sites where it is available:
-
- + ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu//pub/etext/etext93/world93.txt
- + ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu//pub/etext/etext93/world93.zip
- + http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/NTDB/Wofact.html
- +
- gopher://info.umd.edu:901/11/inforM/Educational_Resources/Acad
- emicResourcesByTopic/UnitedStatesAndWorld/International/World
- Facts
- + ftp://relay.cs.toronto.edu/doc/geography/world-factbook.Z
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- Hostels: The Internet Guide to Hostelling
- http://www.digimark.net/rec-travel/hostels/index.html
- ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/ro/overby/hostel.welcome.html
- Maintained by Darren Overby, overby@crl.com, this is a
- collection of questions and answers about hostels and
- hostelling, and a directory of hostels affiliated with several
- associations as well as independent hostels.
-
- Omni-Cultural Academic Resource
- gopher://gopher.stolaf.edu/11/Internet%20Resources/St.%20Olaf%2
- 0Sponsored%20Mailing%20Lists/Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource
- A collection of information with an international cultural
- bent.
-
- RV Listserv
- A mailing list for discussion of RVing and travelling over the
- road. We hope to eventually establish a rec.travel.rv newsgroup
- or expand the range of alt.rv. To subscribe, send the one-line
- email message "sub rv Your Real Name" (example: sub rv Rich
- Ervin) to listserv@microimages.com. Maintained by Rich Ervin,
- rervin@microimages.com.
-
- 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.
-
- Travel-L mailing list
- A mailing list for discussing travel questions. (If you have
- Usenet access, this list is gatewayed to bit.listserv.travel-l.
- Also check out the rec.travel newsgroup.) To subscribe, send
- mail to listserv@trearn.bitnet with only the line "subscribe
- travel-l firstname lastname", substituting your own first and
- last names. The list is archived; send the message "index
- travel-l" to see what months are available. Send the message
- "help" for more information on listserv commands.
-
- U.S. State Department Travel Advisories
- http://www.stolaf.edu/network/travel-advisories.html
- What the U.S. government wants its citizens to know before
- visiting a foreign land.
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- _________________________________________________________________
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- Maintained by Brian_Lucas@umanitoba.ca
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- Brian Lucas
- <Brian_Lucas@UManitoba.ca>
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