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@SUBJECT:Directory of travel information available via internet
Message-ID: <CC9ACB.J0q@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Newsgroup: rec.travel,rec.answers,news.answers
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Archive-name: travel/online-info
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SOURCES OF ON-LINE TRAVEL INFORMATION
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Last revision: 22 June 1993
This is a list of online travel information resources available via the
internet. Mail additions or corrections to Brian Lucas
<lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca>.
NOTE: rtfm.mit.edu has been reorganized. I have not yet checked all the
locations of files to bring this list up to date. Search under either
/pub/usenet-by-group or /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy.
Airplane tickets, cheap
*ftp to rtfm.mit.edu: /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/travel/air
bucket-shops
Airport code letters
Method: ftp rtfm.mit.edu: /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/travel/air
Filenames: na-airport-codes, world-airport-codes
Beaches, clothing-optional
*ftp to rtfm.mit.edu:pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/nude/*
Bookstores
*ftp rtfm.mit.edu: pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/arts/books/*
Caribbean Travel Roundup
*ftp ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca: rec-travel/caribbean/travel-roundup
CTR is a monthly newsletter published by Paul Graveline
<74004.3434@compuserve.com>. Selected back issues are available at
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca.
CIA World Factbook
*telnet info.rutgers.edu or telnet 128.6.26.25
Select "library", "reference", "world", and enter the name of the country
you are interested in. It includes such things as population stats, info
about the country's government (names of heads of state and so on),
economy, addresses of U.S. embassies, and more. Very interesting!
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.
Green Travel (eco-tourism)
Green Travel <green.travel> is a public conference dedicated to
environmentally and culturally responsible tourism. To be included in
the e-mail echo of the conference, write to Marcus Lucian Endicott
<mendicott@igc.apc.org>. An ftp archive is available: connect to
icg.apc.org:/pub/green.travel.
Omni-Cultural Academic Resource
*ftp ftp.stolaf.edu : gopher/Databases/Omni-Cultural.../Going-Places
*gopher gopher.stolaf.edu : Databases/Omni-Cultural.../Going_Places
*wais
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 <cdr@stolaf.edu>.
Poland travel archive
*gopher poniecki.berkeley.edu : Archives.../Polish.../Travels/*
*ftp poniecki.berkeley.edu : /pub/polish
rec.travel archives
*ftp ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca: rec-travel
Contains 10 MB of travelogues, guides, and FAQs written by people on
the net. Organized into directories by continent and country.
rec.travel.air FAQ:
*ftp rtfm.mit.edu: pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/travel/air/*
Restaurants, Vegetarian
*ftp rtfm.mit.edu: pub/usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide
canada.Z, usa1.Z, usa2.Z, other.Z, europe.Z
soc.culture.* FAQs:
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.
*ftp rtfm.mit.edu: pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/soc/culture/*
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.
Weather
*telnet downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000
No login name or password required but make sure you specify port 3000!
U.S. and Canadian weather conditions, forecasts, skiing conditions,
and marine forecasts. Also current conditions (sky and temperature)
for major cities worldwide, as well as earthquake and hurricane reports.
U.S. State Department Travel Advisories
*ftp ftp.stolaf.edu: pub/travel-advisories/advisories
*gopher gopher.stolaf.edu: Databases/US-State-Department../
*Mailing List: mail to travel-advisories-request@stolaf.edu
Thanks to the following people for helping compile this FAQ:
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Marcus Lucian Endicott <mendicott@igc.apc.org>
Pierre Flener <pf@info.ucl.ac.be>
Craig D. Rice <cdr@stolaf.edu>
Scott Yanoff <yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
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Brian Lucas Just once, I'd like to meet someone on the
<Brian_Lucas@UManitoba.ca> net who *does* speak for their company....
<lucas@cc.umanitoba.ca>
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