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Internet Sites

  • TRAVEL SAFETY
    • The U.S. State Department site has a page of Travel Warnings at travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html that has information to ensure you have a safe trip.

    • http://www.fco.gov.uk/travel [British Foreign Office] Since September 11, anyone who travels has to be concerned with safety and security. You'll find lots of information at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office at www.fco.gov.uk/travel. This is a British Government site, but the information is valid for anyone who is traveling. There is breaking news, information about traveling in specific countries, traveler's tips, advice on what to do if something goes wrong, and more.

    • Sanitation Inspections of International Cruise Ships -- Database Search

  • Wide World Books & Maps [Seattle] [with travel links], ...founded in 1976, has the unique distinction of being the first travel-only bookstore in the country. Since then we have continued to be home to a consortium of travel sages, inspired wanderers, book lovers and cartographic connoiseurs.
  • Information for Tourists (Servers and Directories):
    • CDC Health Information for International Travel
    • Yahoo's Travel Page
    • Travel Weekly (magazine) ("links to dozens of airlines")
    • Travelocity [Sabre Interactive] [Travelocity's Flight Express puts you two clicks away from great travel bargains. Simply log in and tell us where you want to go.]
    • TravelGram Web Site (short notice travel bargains) [An International Travel Newsletter Reporting the Very Latest Travel Discounts and Vacation News]
    • Need a Travel Agent? (American Society of Travel Agents)
    • Escape Tours "... philosophy resides in the belief that quality travel, carefully planned is money well spent. Escape Tours was originated in 1982, fully marketing its wholesale product under the Escape Tours name in 1984. By 1989, Escape Tours gained its current status as the largest regional Mexico Tour Operator in the Pacific Northwest. Celebrating the success of our Mexico and Hawaii products, Escape Tours merged with Oregon based Travel Mexico, beginning its successful product expansion into Canada, Central and South America, Europe and Southern California.
    • Tourism Info Internet (TII) [in English and German] [Germany and Beyond!]
    • European Travel Commission (Group of 26 countries; wide-ranging travel information)
    • Seniors On-Line (Toronto). Non-profit organization offering a free Seniors Visitor Exchange Directory open to anyone over 50. Participants can swap homes for vacations ...
    • WALKABOUT Home Page (Essential Travel Gear) WALKABOUT: (Australian aborigine in origin.) A period of wandering, of variable length, undertaken as a sporadic interruption of routine life. (For spiritual cleansing.)
      • SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF INTERNATIONAL ELECTRICITY (Non-Grounded Adapter Plugs)
    • All about Travel for Seniors (Age of Reason)
    • International Student Travel .... has conducted Outdoor Adventure Tours for university students, throughout the United States, Europe (nine countries), South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. During this time tens of thousands of university students from five continents have participated is IST Student Programs.
      ... several conservation/environmental organizations have asked IST to consider combining IST's Outdoor Adventure Tours with specifically designed volunteer work.
    • Sierra Online

  • Washington State

  • State of Hawaii:

  • Other useful information:

    Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Studies:

    State of Hawaii: Tourism (Bank of Hawaii Report)

    Leisure & Recreation Studies

    Ed Jackson's Bibliography on Leisure and Recreation Behaviors

    Transitions: New Incentives for Rural Communities by Karyn Moscowitz and Randal O'Toole | Thoreau Institute

    "Many Western communities have grown to depend on timber sales, mining, and grazing on federal lands. Controversies over the subsidies and environmental problems associated with commodity production have led federal managers to reduce timber and grazing production. Some communities are looking at recreation as an alternate economic base."

    Newspaper Clippings:

    Directory of State Travel/Tourism Offices. Seattle Times, July 12, 1998.

    Travel: Is tourism the answer for remote Alaskan town? ; Seattle Times, Sunday, June 28, 1998; by Byron Acohido

    "BETHEL, Alaska - It's the time of year when hordes of tourists pour off cruise ships in Juneau and Cordova, storm Denali by train and RV, and practically parachute into remote Arctic outposts like Nome, Barrow and Kotzebue to experience a slice of exotic Alaska. But here in Bethel - gateway to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, a vast alluvial plain in western Alaska washed through by the state's two mightiest rivers - tourist sightings are as rare as summer snow...."

    Vertical growth Seattle Times, Sunday, Dec. 14, 1997 by Susan Gilmore

    "AN EGO BUY. ...last April when Whistler's new 120-unit condominium went on the block (by) Intrawest Corporation, which owns the popular ski resort north of Vancouver, erected expensive displays in the ... "It was phenomenal... frantic calls from buyers as far away as Hong Kong, who couldn't be there in person and couldn't make a bid. The buyers? Rich Vancouver people, said Meredith. It's no surprise, then, that the Canadian census last year found that Whistler, about two hours north of Vancouver tucked into the Coast Mountain Range, is the nation's fastest-growing town, growing 60 percent since 1991."

    Literature:

    TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment

    Cara Aitchison, Nicola E. and MacLeod, Stephen J. Shaw, Leisure and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies, Routledge 2001.

    Ashworth, Gregory and Brian Goodall, eds., Marketing Tourism Places. London: Routledge. 1990.

    Bakkal, I. and A Scaperlanda, "Characteristics of United-States Demand for European Tourism," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics) 127(1991), pp.119-137.

    Van den Berg, Leo et al., Urban Tourism: Performance and Strategies in Eight European Cities. Aldershot, U.K.: Avebury /Ashgate, 1995. [Abstract in JEL, June 1996, p.887]

    Borocs, J., "Travel-Capitalism: The Structure of Europe and the Advent of the Tourist," Comparative Studies in Society & History 34 (Oct. 1992), pp.708-741.

    Boventer, Edwin von. Land Values and Spatial Structure: Agricultural, Urban and Tourist Location Theories," Papers, Regional Science Association, Vol.18, 1967, pp.231-242.

    Britton, S., "Tourism, Capital, and Place: Toward a Critical Geography ofn Tourism," Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 9, December 1991, pp.451-478.

    Britton, Stephen G., "The Political Economy of Tourism in the Third World," Annals of Tourism Research vol.9, 1982, pp.331-58.

    Richard Butler, Richard, C. Michael Hall, John Jenkins, eds., Tourism and Recreation in Rural Areas, Wiley, ISBN: 0-471-97680-6 Hardcover Price: US$89.95 Pages: 274 Copyright: 1998 Published: Jun 1998

    Butler, R.W., "The Concept of a Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution: Implications for Management of Resources," Canadian Geographer. 24(1), 1980, 5-12.

    Christaller, Walter, "Some Considerations of Tourism Location in Europe", Papers, Regional Science Association. Vol.12, 1964, pp.95-105. (attempt to formulate a theory of peripheral places)

    Debbage, Keith G., Spatial Behavior in a Bahamian Resort," Annals of Tourism Research Vol.18, 1991, pp.251-68.

    Debbage, Keith G., Oligopoly and the Resort Cycle in the Bahamas," Annals of Tourism Research, vol.17, 1990, pp.513-27.

    Eadington, William R. and Milton Redman, "Economics and Tourism," Annals of Tourism Research vol.18, 1991, pp.41-56.

    Fenich, G.G., "An Assessment of whether the Convention Center in New York is successful as a Tool for Economic Development," Economic Development Quarterly, vol.8, 1994, 245-55.

    Hall, Derek, "Transport Implications of Tourism Development," in: Transport and Economic Development in the New Central and Eastern Europe. Hall, D., ed., Belhaven, 1993 [HE242.9 T73]

    HALL, C. MICHAEL AND ALAN A. LEW, eds., SUSTAINABLE TOURISM : A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE. Harlow, Essex, Eng. : Longman, 1998. [Suzzallo/Allen General Stacks G155.A1 S87]

    C.M. Hall, S.J. Page The Geography of Tourism and Recreation II Environment, Place and Space, 2nd Edition, Routledge 2001 (Paperback).

    Heath, E. and G. Wall, Marketing Tourism Destinations: A Strategic Planning Approach. New York: John Wiley, 1992.

    HUSBANDS,-W.-C., Tourist space and touristic attraction: an analysis of the destination choices of European travelers. Leisure-Sciences. 1983. 5(4), pp 289-307, 6 tables, 27 refs.

    Dimitri Ioannides, Keith G. Debbage, The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry. Routledge, 1998.

    The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry explains tourism's definitions and examines whether or not tourism can be conceptualized as an industry.

    Keller, C.Peter, "Stages of Peripheral Tourism Development - Canada's Northwest Territories," Tourism Management vol.8, March 1987, pp.20-32.

    Malecki, E., Technology and Economic Development, 2nd ed., 1997, pp.21ff. "Tourism".

    MANSFELD, Y., "TURBULENT SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND VARIABLE PROPENSITY TO TRAVEL - THE CASE OF ISRAEL, 1948-1989," TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE EN SOCIALE GEOGRAFIE 84 (2): 132-143 1993

    Mansfeld, Y., Tourism: Towards a Behavioural Approach. Pergamon 1992.

    Mitchell, Lisle S. and Peter E. Murphy, "Geography and Tourism," Annals of Tourism Research vol.18, 1991, pp.57-70.

    Montanari, EUROPEAN TOURISM : REGIONS, SPACES AND RESTRUCTURING / EDITED BY ARMANDO MONTANARI AND ALLAN M. WILLIAMS. Chichester, England ; New York, N.Y. : J. Wiley, 1995. Suzz/Allen Stacks. [G155.E8 E877 1995]

    Okubo, S., and Planting, M.A., U.S. Travel and Tourism Satellite Accounts for 1992," Survey of Current Business, July 1998, 78(7), pp. 8-22.

    OPPERMANN, Martin, EDITOR. GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM MARKETING. New York : Haworth Press, 1997.

    Pearce, Douglas G., TOURISM TODAY : A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS. Harlow, Essex, England : Longman Scientific & Technical ; New York, NY : Wiley, 1995. 202 p. [G155.A1 P359 1995]

    Shaw, Gareth. CRITICAL ISSUES IN TOURISM : A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE / GARETH SHAW AND ALLAN M. WILLIAMS. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1994. xii, 280 p. : ill., maps. [G155.A1 S48 1994]

    Stabler, M.J., Tourism and Sustainability. 401pp., Oxford UP, 1997.

    Stroud, Hubert B. THE PROMISE OF PARADISE : RECREATIONAL AND RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1950 / HUBERT B. STROUD. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xi, 220 p. : ill., maps. [HV1454.2.U6 S77 1995]

    Theobald, William. Global Tourism: The Next Decade. Oxford: Butterworth, 1994.

    Vellas, Francois and Lionel Beherel. International Tourism: An Economic Perspective. N.Y.: St.Martin's. 1995 [Abstract in JEL June 1996, p.890]

    Weaver, David B., "Grand Cayman Island and the Resort Cycle Concept," Journal of Travel Research 29(2), 1990, pp.9-15.

    Williams, A.M. & G.Shaw, Tourism and Regional Development: Polarization and New Forms of Production in the UK, Tijdschrift vorr Economische en sociale Geografie, vol.86, 1995, 50-63.

    Williams, A.M. and Balaz, V. (2000) Privatisation and the development of tourism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: property rights, firm performance and recombinant property. Environment and Planning A 32, 715-734.

    Williams, A.M. and V. Balaz (2000) Tourism in Transition: Economic Change in Central Europe. London, I.B.Tauris.

    Williams, A.M. and Hall, M. (2000) Tourism and migration: new relationships between production and consumption. Tourism Geographies 2, 5-27.

    Witt, S.F. and C.A.Witt, "Forecasting Tourism Demand: A Review of Empirical Research. International Journal of Forecasting 11(3), Sept.1995, pp.447-75.

    Witt, Stephen F. and Christine A. Martin, "International Tourism Demand Models - Inclusion of Marketing Variables," Tourism Management vol.8, March 1987, pp.33ff.

    Zelinky, Wilbur. "Conventionland USA: The Geography of a Latterday Phenomenon," Annals (AAG) 84(1), March 1994, 68-86.

    Journals:

    Annals of Tourism Research
    Journal of Travel Research
    Tourism Management (Butterworth)
    Tourism and Hospitality Mangement (since July 1995, Coatia) [described in JEL, June 1996, p.942]

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