Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!noc.near.net!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!lucas From: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas) Newsgroups: rec.travel,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Directory of travel information available via internet Followup-To: poster Date: 24 Mar 1994 10:00:03 GMT Organization: The University of Manitoba Lines: 114 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Message-ID: <2mrob3$rp4@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> Reply-To: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas) NNTP-Posting-Host: ccu.umanitoba.ca Summary: A list of internet information sources - mailing lists, ftp sites, listservs, etc - of interest to travellers. Originator: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.travel:35854 rec.answers:4580 news.answers:16788 Archive-name: travel/online-info ------------------------------------- SOURCES OF ON-LINE TRAVEL INFORMATION ------------------------------------- Last revision: 04 December 1993 This is a list of online travel information resources available via the internet. Mail additions or corrections to Brian_Lucas@umanitoba.ca. 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 ----------------------------------- 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 --------------- 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 <74004.3434@compuserve.com>. 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 . 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 listserv@trearn.bitnet 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. -- Brian Lucas