Tourism Research Links

Agricultural Tourism

[Prepared by Kathryn Lack and Margaret Paridean, REM Graduate Students]

Gateway Sites

  1. This first gateway site: http://www.nalusda.gov/ is the home page of the National Agricultural Library (NAL). This library is a major international source for agriculture and related information. From this web site, the associated institutions of ISIS, AgNIC and Internet Sites can be assessed.

Other Links

  1. This web site:http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/agnic/agnic-ric.htm/ connects to the Rural Information Center which has a search box.
  2. To gain a greater understanding of a policy that affects agri-tourism development in B.C, the Agricultural Land Commission web site was chosen. This web site: http://www.island.net/~awpb/aware/id25.html has information on agricultural tours/tourism and direct marketing.

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ECOTOURISM

Gateway Sites

  1. Ecosource. This page: http://www.ecosourcenetwork.com/ has multiple links to related sites on tourism and environmental issues. http://www.ecomanage.com/ International Society for Ecotourism Management.
  2. Ecotourism Information Centre - Included in this site: http://lorenz.mur.csu.edu.au/ecotour/EcoTrHme.html is a list of related research links; generally, a very useful jumping off point for ecotourism research.
  3. Exploring Ecotourism http://www.txinfinet.com/mader/ecotravel/etour.html "Exploring Tourism " archives the quarterly journal Planeta Platica which focuses on environmental tourism and news from Latin America. The site also provides environmental travel contacts, gives general background information on ecotourism, addresses specific ecotourism issues in Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica and Equator and provides bibliography on ecotourism literature.
  4. This gateway site: http://ecotourism.miningco.com/
    mbody.htm?terms=ecotourism&COB=home
    connects to the Mining Co. Ecotourism home page. The Ecotourism GuideSite is an excellent gateway to find information on ecotourism projects worldwide. It provides valuable research-related sources of information.
  5. Big Volcano Ecotourism Resource Centre gateway site - http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/ercentre/ercpage.htm - provides links to many topics on ecotourism. Users have access to a range of resources from articles to conferences, organizations, and success stories.

Other Links

  1. The site: http://www.ecotourism.org/ is well researched, navigable, and seems to be very credible. In addition, several relevant links are included in the page.
  2. Exploring Ecotourism web site - http://www.txinfinet.com/mader/ecotravel/etour.html - presents a diversity of issues and information devoted to the application of environmental travel and ecotourism. A calendar of events, recommended books and bibliographies, and country-specific directories are posted.

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INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

[Prepared by Liz Watchhorn, UBC Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. ICLEI was established in 1990, in a partnership with UNEP, International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), and the Center for Innovative Diplomacy (CID). This site: http://www.iclei.org/ provides a great deal of useful information for sustainability initiatives in general and indicator development in particular.

Other Links

  1. In addition to being a top gateway site, this ICLEI site:http://www.iclei.org/ also qualifies as a top web site. ICLEI accesses information on local sustainability projects, best practices, policy and practices publications and a project summary series which includes case studies from around the world.
  2. This site: http://www.sustainablemeasures.com can be accessed through the ICLEI gateway (as well as numerous others) or directly by its URL. This site includes a useful set of information on: everything you always wanted to know about indicators; indicators by category and "what is sustainability, anyway?"
  3. This site: http://www.sustainable.org/ wasn't referenced by any of the Gateway Sites noted above so is best accessed by its URL. This site is maintained to assist US "grass roots" sustainability projects to communicate the details of their sustainability initiatives to each other.

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MARINE PROTECTED AREAS

[Prepared by Sandra Biecego, UBC Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. An Approach to the Establishment & Management of MPAs Under the Oceans Act: http://www.ncr.dfo.ca/communic/comm/_e.htm
  2. Charting the Course: Towards a Marine Conservation Areas Act: http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/library/to_NMCA_act/to_act1e.htm


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PARKS AND TOURISM

Gateway Sites

  1. Internet resources for outdoor recreation research: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leung/recres.html

    This site is an excellent website and gateway to resources on information on parks and tourism. The site is divided into research topics and also includes a resource list with useful links. Research topics include outdoor recreation planning and management, recreational issues on public lands, nature tourism, socio-psychological and ecological aspects of outdoor recreation and visitor education and communication.
  2. National Recreation and Parks Association: http://www.nrpa.org
    The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) is a American, non-profit service organization dedicated to "advancing parks, recreation and environmental efforts that enhance the quality of life for all people". The NRPA strives to promote public awareness of the environmental and natural resource management aspects of recreation and leisure services. Under the main menu, a listing of related web pages provides links to leisure, recreation, tourism and park sites.
  3. The Geo Link Library web site: http://www.geonetwork.org/links/index.html contains a comprehensive listing of web sites covering environmental issues, community economic development, forestry and land management, parks, urban sprawl, transportation, and planning. The section pertaining to parks provides an extensive list of institutions and organizations involved with the management, planning, and protection of national parks.
  4. This gateway site: http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/pnp/swiat.htm connects to the National Parks Worldwide web site. This site provides links to web pages on national parks located in more than 70 countries around the world.

Other Links

  1. National Parks Service:http://www.nps.gov/ The US National Parks Service site provides information on "links to the past" including information on archeology, civil war, heritage tourism, historic places, landscapes, museums and maritime information.
  2. Canadian Parks and Recreation Association:http://www.activeliving.ca/activeliving/cpra.html The Canadian Parks and Recreation Association's website contains information on the activities of the "collective voice for recreation and parks in Canada". The organization is the only national link between Canadian communities in the leisure field.
  3. Parks Canada:http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/parks/main_e.htm. This site is useful for information on the Canadian National Parks System.
  4. The Statistics Canada web site - http://www.statcan.ca/ - is a very powerful and useful tool to access current statistics, research articles, and references. It also provides links to statistical databases hosted by provincial governments and other national governments.

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SPORTS FISHING

Gateway Sites

  1. Go to: http://www.the-fishing-network.com/; 1. THE FISHING NETWORK WEB ZINE at: www. the-fishing-network.com/library/archives.htm Go into ARCHIVES, two specifically interesting articles are: January 1996, Vol 1, No. 4 Article: Ontario Fish Management Plan, put online by the Ontario Federation of Fishers and Anglers- timely legislative initiatives for the industry March 1996, Vol 1, No. 6 Article: Becoming an Outdoors Woman- excellent discussion about women's role in sports fishing and how this is changing.
  2. Go to: http://www.pagebiz.com fishing page icon at: OL' PAWS FISHING PAGE the first springboard for the most extensive fishery information on the web-provides useful regional fishing information by country and state. 1. Go to Canada- ANGLERS NET at;http://www.angling.bc.com-great fishing reports from all over BC, not commercial and very detailed. 2. Go to WOMEN'S FISHING Partnership at: http://www.eskimo.com/~baubo/wfp/html-excellent resources to look at the gender issues in Sports Fishing.
  3. One particularly useful site is the PACIFIC FISHERIES ENVIRONEMENTAL GROUP http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov

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Backcountry Recreation Management in Protected Areas

[Prepared by Jeff Juthans, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. Wilderness on the World Wide Web
    http://www.forestry.umt.edu/people/borrie/wilderness/default.htm
    This site is an extensive gateway site that offers many international links that relate to wilderness. The primary categories include: wilderness concepts, areas, management, policy, education and advocacy.
  2. Natural Resources Research Information Pages
    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leung/recres.html
    This gateway site offers comprehensive sections of web links on outdoor recreation research and another on related resource links. The site also offers general literature references, on-line resources, archives/databases, and related web sites of environmental NGO's, academic programs and periodicals.

Other Links

  1. The National Park Services web site http://www.nps.gov/ provides a wealth of National Park Service information. The Planing Projects Library section http://www.nps.gov/planning/planlib.htm of ParkNet contains completed planning projects. The Natural Resource Publications section http://aqsun.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/nrpntis.htm of the website contains a list of publications from the NPS Technical Information Center.
  2. The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute: Publications List http://www.wilderness.net/Leopold/publist.htm has an extensive publications list pertaining to wilderness management related topics. The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute provides a list of publications that relate to backcountry visitor management in protected areas.
  3. The U.S.D.A. Forest Service: Resource Valuation and Use Research web site http://www.fs.fed.us/research/rvur/recreation/outdoor.htm lists ongoing (Forest Service supported) outdoor recreation, cultural heritage, social science and wilderness research projects. Research projects are summarized and contact names and numbers are given.
  4. The web site of the Canadian Heritage - Parks Canada Library http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/library/indexe.htm offers information relating to the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) planning model and its application to two wildernesses type national parks.

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Community Tourism Planning

[Prepared by Ann Murphy, UBC Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. This site http://www.cyburbia.org Cyburbia - Internet Resources for the Built Environment contains a comprehensive list of nearly 7000 links relevant to urban and regional planning, architecture and the built environment and is updated on a daily basis with reindexing of the search engine conducted once a month.
  2. The University of Northern B.C.'s British Columbia Resource Communities Project Home Page http://quarles.unbc.edu/frbc/ is designed to help individuals, communities and companies to access information necessary for community resource decision-making and community development. This site serves as a gateway to websites and email addresses in the areas of community and sustainability, citizen participation in resource management, and BC models of community participation.
  3. The final gateway site is The Community Economic Development Centre (CEDC) at Simon Fraser University http://www.sfu.ca/cedc/gateway/index.htm The CEDC conducts research on changes, trends and opportunities in community economic development. This site provides information on new initiatives, books published, information about the centre, as well as links to sites that provide on-line articles relating to CED. The CEDC site also contains a large abstract database of CED initiatives.  

Other Links

  1. The W. K. Kellogg Collection of Rural Community Development Resources http://www.unl.edu/kellogg/index.html web site serves as a repository of high quality rural community development materials The resource collection is divided into seven categories including community development, strategic planning and economic development with each annotation describing the materials' audience, purpose, content, format and availability.
  2. The web site of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications: Technology Research Group http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/trg/ contains full documents of the groups research activities with articles on the application of Internet technology to rural communities, the role of the web in connecting a community, and strategies for developing a community network.
  3. The web site of the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/index.html includes on-line manuals, workbooks, success stories, model codes and ordinances for making a community a better place to live. The Land Use Planning section of the site include papers, articles and resources on building sustainable community tourism developments.

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Energy Related Web Site Links

[Prepared by Dean Luciuk, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. Natural Resources Canada http://www.Nrcan.gc.ca is the first gateway site. This web site contains links to different branches of both the federal and international governments. Access to journals, government publications and industrial data sources are also provided.
  2. The second gateway site is the B.C Ministry of Environment Land and Parks http://www.env.gov.bc.ca:80/.
  3. The final gateway site The California Energy Commission http://www.energy.ca.gov/index.html offers access to hot topics, information on the commission, news releases, publications and numerous links to related web sites. 

Other Links

  1. Energy News Groups http://www.energy.ca.gov/links/web.html.
  2. Energy Databases http://www.energy.ca.gov/database/index.html.
  3. This site http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/epd/epdpa/mpp/mpphome.html offers educational materials, technical reports, financial reports and information brochures relating to waste management.
  4. Journals related to energy can be found at http://www.lib.kth.se/kthbeng/kthb.html.

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Mountain Tourism

[Prepared by Esther Speck, REM Graduate Student]

Other Links

  1. The Swiss Alpine InfoSystem www.alpine.unibe.ch/ contains information from approximately 306 actual Swiss research projects in the field of Alpine Research. This site offers an overview of researchers an ongoing projects, national and international projects and other organizations and commissions.
  2. The Mountain Institute http://www.mountain.org/text/index.html focuses its research programs primarily on the Himalayas, the Andes, and the Appalachians. From the projects section, information from three areas of research that the institute is dedicated to: natural resource, cultural and educational conservation can be accessed.
  3. Sustainable Tourism in the Himalayas:
    a) Programs in the Qomolangma Nature Preserve (Tibet)
    http://www.mountain.org/Qomolangmanecon.html
    b) Langtang Conservation and Enterprise Project (Nepal)
    http://www.mountain.org/Langtang.html.
    c) Ecotourism Development in Khangchendzonga National Park (India)
    http://www.mountain.org/sikkim.html
  4. The Institute For Tourism and Leisure Studies, Vienna, Austria http://www.tourism.wu-wien.ac.at/ is in German and offers a searchable database of abstracts on studies on tourism development in the European Alps, with special focus on Austria and numerous references to sustainable tourism.
  5. This site the Survey of Ecotourism Potential in Pakistan's Biodiversity Project Area (Chitral and Northern Areas) http://www.monitor.net/~jmko/karakoram/biodiv.htm offers a comprehensive report for the World Conservation Union (IUCN)- Pakistan.

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Wildlife Viewing Tourism

[Prepared by Kim Smith, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. This first gateway site: http://whale.wheelock.edu/ is the home page of WhaleNet, a part of EnviroNet, an interdisciplinary program that aims to enhance science education and environmental awareness. This site is of particular interest to those interested in marine wildlife viewing.
  2. The second gateway site: http://www.awrta.org/ The Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association provides useful links to other wildlife and ecotourism related websites such as:the World Travel and Tourism Council and the Ecotourism Society. This site also provides the Proceedings of the 1998 Ecotourism in Alaska Conference at Alaska Pacific University.
  3. The third gateway site: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leung/nrrips.html The Natural Resources Research Information Pages is designed as an Internet resource guide for natural resource students, researchers and practitioners.

Other Links

  1. The High North Alliance www.highnorth.no/default.htm is a Norwegian organization that has an interest in protecting the rights of whalers, sealers and fisherman who harvest renewable resources in accordance with the principles of sustainable management. The site provides a library of articles on ethics, whale behaviour and whale/seal watching.
  2. This web site: http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/whale/ provides background and statistical information on global whale-watching and links to whale-watching sites from many countries around the world.
  3. Eco Travel in Latin America http://www.txinfinet.com/mader/ecotravel/ecotravel.html is a website created as an outgrowth of the quarterly newsletter El Planeta Platica/The Earth Speaks. This website archives information about environmental issues and travel in the Americas and focuses on promoting ecotourism. Information on this website includes ecotourism polls and surveys, conferences and congresses, and many articles.

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Winter Tourism

[Prepared by Alain Thibeault, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. The first gateway: http://www.canadatourism.com/ is the Canadian Tourism homepage. It leads to the CTX Business Centre or to the Partner link which has a section on successful winter tourism stories.
  2. The second gateway site: http://www.cotr.bc.ca/ connects to the Rocky Mountain Institute for Tourism, Leisure & Recreation. This site connects to the libraries of many institutions across BC.
  3. The final gateway site: http://www.icimod.org.sg/ connects to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. It leads to links related to mountain development, which can be relevant to winter tourism.

Other Links

  1. To get information about sustainable development in the mountain regions across the globe, the Mountain Forum web site - http://www.mtnforum.org/ - is very useful. It also gives access to links about recreation, community, development, environment, on-line libraries, research and other mountain related topics that can be associated with winter tourism.
  2. This web site: http://www.saminfo.com/ is the Ski Area Management (SAM) magazine home site. It allows users to find articles in the SAM archives and also gives access to the SAM research centre. It is a valuable web site for researchers interested in the ski industry.

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Coastal Fisheries Tourism

[Prepared by Karl Fellenius, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. The first gateway site: http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/english/default.htm connects to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Pacific Region - Communication Branch home page. It contains public policy information on commercial, recreational and First Nations fisheries in the Pacific Region.
  2. This gateway site: http://seagrant.orst.edu/crt/index.html connects to the National Sea Grant Program, a partnership between academia, industry and government in the U.S. The program promotes research and education encouraging the sustainable use of the Great Lakes and ocean resources.

Other Links

  1. The Sea Grant - Coastal Recreation and Tourism Guide - http://seagrant.orst.edu/crt/crtguide.html provides a summary of ongoing projects and contact information for project researchers. Projects are listed by state, and classified as primarily research, education or outreach.
  2. The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Management Plan Review web site - http://www.parkscan.harbour.com serves as an example of some of the challenges of developing a cultural resource tourism product while preserving its character and integrity. It provides an overview of cultural resource issues identified by Parks Canada and the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society.
  3. This web site: http://www.bcfish.com/ connects to the BC's Fisherman's Unique Tours home page. It provides information on cultural tours on commercial fishing vessels, and interpretive walking tours guided by commercial fishers. It offers researchers an opportunity to learn about specific challenges encountered in these new businesses such as regulatory requirements for chartering and vessel conversion.

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Sustainable Tourism

[Prepared by David Waldron, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. The Sustainable Tourism INterest Group (STRING) set up a web site - http://www.yorku.ca/dkproj - providing tourism researchers with a comprehensive collection of internet resources relevant to sustainable tourism. Its links include multilateral organizations, non-governmental and governmental organizations, and codes of ethics and practices.
  2. Tourism Montreal has developed a web site devoted to tourism research. One section of the site focuses on tourism sustainable development research. It is accessible at: http://www.tourism-montreal.org/

Other Links

  1. This web site: http://www.greenglobe.org connects to the Green Globe site. Green Globe is an environmental management and awareness program developed by the World Travel and Tourism Council. It provides up-to-date coverage of some recent efforts in the tourism industry to become more environmentally aware.
  2. TOURFOR - http://www.tourfor.com - is a project that is using environmental management systems for recreational and tourism forestry sites. The web site provides a good case study and links focusing on environmental management.
  3. The World Travel and Tourism Council web site - http://www.wttc.org - has a section devoted to environmental issues. It provides key web sites to visit, including EcoNETT, a site that focuses on sustainable tourism projects and initiatives developed by companies or travel destinations.

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Tourism Training

[Prepared by Angie Gerst, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. The Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC) is a national non-profit organization which "promotes and enhances professionalism in the Canadian Tourism Industry through industry standards, training and Professional Certification. Its web site - http://www.cthrc.ca - leads to several human resource organizations as well as a wealth of information on training resources and programs,
  2. From the "Strategis" web site - http://www.strategis.ic.gc.ca -, it is possible to search for information through a search box or by using the link "Employment and Learning Resources".
  3. The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) web site - http://www.wttc.org - gives access to the World Travel and Tourism Human Resources Centre (WTTHRC). The WTTHRC site provides up-to-date, relevant and comprehensive information about the organization's very active role in tourism training and education research.

Other Links

  1. The mission of Human Resource Development Canada (HRDC) is to "enable Canadians to participate fully in the workplace and the community". Its web site - http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ - provides information on career and personal development.

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Wine Tourism

[Prepared by Theresa Fortin, SFU Business Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. This first gateway site: http://wineserver.ucdavis.edu/WineGrape/otherlinks/index.html connects to the University of California at Davis, Department of Viticulture and Enology Cooperative Extension. It is an excellent gateway site providing an extensive list of links to wine academia, scientific journals in viticulture and enology, and wine search engines.
  2. This web site: http://www.ryerson.ca/~dtudor/wine.htm leads to the "Wines Beer and Spirits of the Net". It provides a monthly updated list of Usenet/Netnews groups, and a very long list of URLs sorted by type of reference material and country.
  3. Developed for the Wine Business Education program of the School of Business & Economics of Sonoma State University, this gateway site: http://www.sonoma.edu/people/bbutler/wine/#education contains links to several education and research centres on wine marketing and viticulture management.

Other Links

  1. From the Bureau of Tourism Research (Australia) releases web page - http://www.btr.gov.au/news/news.html -, one can order the proceedings from the First Australian Wine Tourism Conference, held at Margaret River in 1998.
  2. The Sonoma County Wine Library web site: http://www.sonoma.lib.ca.us/wine.html gives access to the library catalog via Telnet. The library contains many references on wine tourism.
  3. This web site: http://www.winetitles.com.au/wij/index.html connects to The Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Journal home page. The journal archives contain many relevant articles on wine tourism, easily retrieved by entering "tourism" in the search box.
  4. The Farm Practices in BC: Reference Guide web page - http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/resmgmt/fppa/refguide/commodty/grapes.htm - can be accessed from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food - BC web site. It provides a listing and linkages in the reference section to information that outlines grape production and winery practices, including information on direct marketing.
  5. This web site: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/rpcgwr/nwgic.htm connects to the National Wine and Grape Industry Center, located at Charles Sturt University in Australia. The combination of wine partners produces a Center capable of serving the Australian wine industry through research, teaching, training and information exchange.

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Senior's Tourism

Gateway Sites

  1. This site: http://webhome.idirect.com/~tourism/research.html connects to the Tourism Research Resources section of the Tourism Information Network. It provides an extensive list of links to research institutes, statistics sites and other related web sites.

Other Links

  1. The Canadian Business and Current Affairs database - http://delos.lib.sfu.ca:80/cgi-bin/www_gateway/z3950.CGI?cbca.db - includes many current articles on tourism, seniors and the seniors market. This URL must be accessed through the SFU library at: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/

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Managing Commercial Recreation on Public Land

[Prepared by Neil Curtis, REM Graduate Student]

Government Agency Websites

  1. British Columbia Assets and Lands Corporation - Commercial Recreation Strategy, Sea to Sky Corridor http://www.bcal.bc.ca/home.htm BCAL is the British Columbia Assets and Land Corporation, a provincial agency responsible for the tenuring and marketing of Crown Lands, the 92 percent of the province which is publicly owned. The website includes an overview of the organisation's operations, including information about the commercial recreation program http://www.bcal.bc.ca/for_business/commercial_recreation
  2. British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks - Crown Lands Branch http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/clb. A major role of the Crown Lands Branch is to develop policy, procedures, standards, and legal tenure documentation relating to the management, administration and disposition of Crown land. The website includes a link to the text of the Commercial Recreation on Crown Land policy http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/clb/crec/finalcbr.htm and also includes a link to the Commercial Recreation Strategy for the Sea to Sky Corridor http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/clb/planning/lmr/bcassets.htm
  3. USDA Forest Service - Recreation, Heritage and Wilderness Resources http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation. This part of the USDA Forest Service website is rather rudimentary, but does include a link to the Outfitting and Guiding Directory, which covers tenuring of public lands for commercial uses http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/permits/outfitting.htm
  4. USDA Forest Service - Recreation, Wilderness, Urban Forest and Demographic Trends Research Group http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/trends/. The Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Assessment Group studies outdoor recreation and wilderness demand and related social for application in public land management. The useful website includes a link to the results from the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/trends/fsoutrec.html
  5. USDA Forest Service - Policy Analysis http://www.fs.fed.us/policy/. This otherwise rudimentary part of the Forest Service website includes a link to an interesting article, "Public recreation lands / private recreation enterprise: Policy issues from a historical perspective" http://www.fs.fed.us/policy/public_recreation_lands.htm
  6. Bureau of Land Management http://www.blm.gov/nhp/index.htm. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers 264 million acres of America's public lands, located primarily in 12 Western States. The website gives a comprehensive overview of the organization's activities, including information about Land Use Authorizations: Leases and Permits http://www.blm.gov/nhp/what/lands/realty/permits.htm

Recreation Industry Websites

  1. Canadian Parks and Recreation Association http://www.cpra.ca. The Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA) is the collective voice for recreation and parks in Canada, with a diverse, community-based membership ranging from community volunteers and front-line service providers to senior managers and elected officials. The website gives a comprehensive overview of the organization's activities.
  2. American Recreation Coalition http://www.funoutdoors.com/. The American Recreation Coalition is a Washington-based non-profit federation of more than 100 private sector organizations. Its volunteer leaders run the nation's most prominent recreation companies and recreation-related associations. The extensive website includes numerous links to other recreation-oriented websites, as well as reports such as "Outdoor Recreation In America 2000: Addressing Key Societal Concerns" http://www.funoutdoors.com/Rec00/index.html
  3. National Forest Recreation Association http://www.nfra.org. The National Forest Recreation Association represents and serves as advocate for businesses offering quality outdoor recreation opportunities to the public on federal lands and waters across the United States. The site includes a good list of links to other outdoor resources, as well as a direct link to Laws and Regulations Governing Recreation Special Uses on the US National Forest System.
  4. Outdoor Recreation Coalition of America http://www.orca.org/. ORCA is a trade association with products and services that support the business of outdoor recreation, focusing on the human-powered outdoor recreation (HPOR) industry. The website gives an overview of the various activities undertaken by the organization.

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Cultural Heritage Tourism

[Prepared by Margaret Paridean, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. ICOMOS Canada http://canada.icomos.org/. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. ICOMOS provides a forum for professional dialogue and a vehicle for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of information on conservation principles, techniques, and policies. There are national committees around the world, each with their own websites. The focus of ICOMOS Canada is to share, on an international scale, information and expertise on cultural resources and preservation. The website provides papers, articles, a monthly bulletin and references for publications on heritage protection. It also provides links to agencies that manage Canadian World Heritage Sites such as Parks Canada. The main Canadian ICOMOS website is not as useful as some other websites that are affiliated with ICOMOS Canada, but which, unfortunately, are not directly linked. Some of the sites, however, have links to the ICOMOS Canada website. These include The Centre for Environmental Design Research and Outreach (CEDRO) http://www.ucalgary.ca/EVDS/CEDRO/culturaltourism/, affiliated with The University of Calgary and its Faculty of Environmental Design, developed this website in conjunction with the ICOMOS Canada Cultural Tourism Committee and the World Tourism and Education Research Centre (WTERC). The web pages provide a resource for those interested in cultural tourism, enabling them to link with information and cultural tourism practitioners around the world. The website provides broad-based cultural tourism resources and the Index of ICOMOS Canada Momentum bulletins http://canada.icomos.org/bulletin/, which contains over 30 Momentum bulletin articles offering very relevant and in-depth information on theoretical and practical aspects of cultural tourism.
  2. Culture and UNESCO http://www.unesco.int/culture/development/highlights/
    decade/tourism/html_eng/index_en.htm
    . This website provides an international scope on cultural tourism. The website's aim is to work together with other agencies such as the World Tourism Organisation, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, to devise strategies to preserve cultural heritage while promoting intercultural exchanges, thereby contributing to sustainable economic, social and cultural development. Some joint projects featured include "Silk Roads in Central Asia" and "Slave Routes". The website also features internationally-accepted cultural tourism principles and practices and many examples of these principles in application. There are also web links to many of the international organisations and agencies that are partnering in these cultural tourism initiatives.
  3. The World Heritage Newsletter http://www.unesco.org/whc/news/index-en.htm. Although not linked to the UNESCO culture site, this website makes available all 26 of UNESCO's World Heritage Newsletters from April 2000 to February 1993. Each newsletter is described with a table of contents and has a direct link. Some topics of interest to cultural and heritage tourism are: Conserving outstanding cultural landscapes (June 1993); Canals and cultural routes (June 1995); and Education & fostering awareness about heritage (March 1996).
  4. The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) http://www.nasaa-arts.org/new/nasaa/artworks/ct_contents.shtml. The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) mission is to advance and promote a meaningful role for the arts in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the United States. They empower state arts agencies through assistance that fosters leadership, enhances planning and decision-making, and increases resources. Although the emphasis is on the American cultural tourism scene, there is some useful information relating to the broader cultural tourism subject. Some examples include definition of cultural tourism, cultural visitor profiles, examples of state cultural tourism initiatives such as websites that target North Carolina cultural travellers, The Virginia African-American Heritage Trail and publications.

Other Sites

  1. Utah Heritage Tourism Toolkit http://history.utah.org/httoolkit/. Community awareness and interest in expanding, preserving, and managing heritage resources is growing around the world. The process of cultural tourism development is often complex and takes time and the proper tools. The Utah Division of State History Office of Preservation has developed the Heritage Tourism Toolkit, which is a package of practical tools that communities or groups can use to develop, manage, and protect their cultural and heritage resources. The toolkit is well organised, provides applicable information for researchers and useful methods for tourism practitioners from diverse jurisdictions.
  2. Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) www.canadatourism.com. The Canadian Tourism Commission offers a wealth of reference information on a broad spectrum of tourism areas. A useful tool for the cultural tourism researcher is the Reference Centre. Here one can search the CTC Library Catalogue using a simple search or more detailed search for a particular title. A keyword search using the terms "cultural tourism" turned up 62 references with complete bibliographical information. The publications are both Canadian and international, and are published as recently as the year 2000. The documents can be ordered through interlibrary loan.
  3. Australian Centre for Cultural and Media Policy (CMP) http://tkraken.itc.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/los_4.html. CMP is operated out of the School of Film, Media & Cultural Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. The Cultural Tourism and Heritage Links page provides a wide array of online cultural tourism resources. Although the emphasis is on the Australian cultural heritage scene, the website offers publications and links to related policy areas in other agencies, as well as links to overseas cultural tourism agencies and online research documents.

Additional Gateway Sites [Prepared by Michael Wong, SFU Graduate Student]

  1. Griffith University http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/los_4.html The Griffith University in Australia has an well-organised website for cultural and heritage tourism for the Australia/New Zealand region. In addition, this gateway offers links to various Art & Culture Ministries located around the world, which include Japan, Italy, Iceland, Greece, and Brazil. This page offers publications on economic indicators of Australia, on-line books on cultural tourism, and links to governmental agencies related to promoting cultural tourism in Australia. Two links from this site include the UNESCO World Heritage Center http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/
    home/pages/homepage.htm
    which provides information on the UNESCO convention and those countries participating in this important pact that protects historical sites. One can find information to world heritage sites by either subject topics or by geographical regions. Some of the categories include natural, fossil, biosphere, tropical, cultural and historic regions and The Organisation of World Heritage Cities http://www.ovpm.org/main.asp which consists of over 164 cities that are listed as heritage urban areas. The purpose of this site is allow government administrator access to information that will help maintain these world heritage sites. Links to many of these 164 cities are found on the site with information such as history, population and location. In addition, many city links provide further connections to their museums and cultural events.
  2. City University Arts Policy and Management Resources http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/index.html This comprehensive website is operated from the City University, London England under the direction of Mr. Patrick Boylan. The gateway has links to hundreds of website located in the UK and around the world. Some of the highlights of this site include links to governmental and intergovernmental agencies connected to cultural tourism, international cultural non-governmental organisations, information on international treaties and conventions related to the cultural tourism. This site offers convenient connections to cultural ministries located around the world, and contains reviews of UK cultural tourism publication. Two interesting links from this site include Virtual Library Museum http://vlmp.museophile.com/ which provides hundreds of link to museums world-wide and links to museum related subjects. Some of the museums represented include the country of Italy, Japan, Austria, Canada, Russia, Romania, and countries from Africa and Latin America and Ministere de la Culture http://www.culture.fr/ which is operated by the French Ministry of Culture and it provides information on cultural news in France and throughout Europe. One can also find the annual budget of the French Cultural Ministry, calendar of cultural events in France, on-line cultural expositions, databases, publications, and statistical figures related to cultural tourism. This site is entirely in French.
  3. The Canadian Heritage Information Network http://www.chin.gc.ca/e_main_menu.html. This internet site is operated by a Canadian federal agency and it provides a gateway for cultural information within Canada. Guests can access information to museums located within Canada and social & archaeological museum artefacts. There is an online forum that allows professionals in the field of cultural heritage to share ideas and exchange information. Visitors to this site can view an online virtual exposition and order various publications related to Canadian heritage. Links from this site include Artefacts Canada http://www.chin.gc.ca/Artefacts/e_artefacts_canada.html where information is classified into three categories, namely, humanities, archeological and natural sciences. In the humanities section, there is information on archaeology, decorative & fine arts, and history. The archaeological age contains material on more than 70 thousand sites found in Canada and the natural science page has information on approximately 28 thousand species and the Canadian Heritage Publication http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Publications/e_publications.html which provides electronic access to on-line publications and allows guest to order manuscripts related to heritage tourism. Additionally, the webpage offers resources such as classification systems and software for gallery and museum product.
  4. Website for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). http://www.nasaa-arts.org/new/nasaa/artworks/ct_contents.shtml. This American site provides a definition of cultural tourism and provides an overview of the industry. The site gives statistics on cultural tourism in American by providing revenue, market share, number of people employed in the field, the most popular activities for American and international travellers, and provides current trends in the industry . The site also describes cultural activities that occur in the specific parts of the United States and provides a calendar for cultural events. In addition, publications on various tourism topics such as the US Department of Transport and Travel Industry of America can be downloaded from the website. Links from this site include the National Heritage Area http://www.ncrc.nps.gov/heritage/program.htm which has been created by various levels of the American government in an attempt to preserve unique cultural and natural landscapes across America. Researchers can locate heritage sites on a virtual map, obtain a contact list and view legislative citation on specific landscapes in America. It also includes links to The National Park Service - Links to the Past http://www.cr.nps.gov/ provided by the American National Parks Service provides links to the past by offering information on cultural topics such as archaeology, historic buildings & structures, general history, and military history. In addition, it offers programs such as American Indian Liaison Office, and Cultural Resource Diversity Initiative.

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Olympics Related Research

[Prepared by Geoff Reid, REM Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. TorontoSummerGames.com - The 2008 Olympic Bid Information Site: www.torontosummergames.com. TSG.com is an independent website focusing not only on the 2008 Olympic Bid process but also other future bids as well. The site publishes features and original articles and stories not available elsewhere online. Their membership includes the world media, members of bid city committees around the world, IOC officials and members as well as Olympic fans, businesses and athletes. It contains daily news updates compiled through media sources throughout the world. In addition, the site acts as a good starting location to link to bid sites for the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games as well as the 2010 Winter Games, as well as containing links to more research-oriented sites. The site also contains a highly visited discussion board with forums related to the 2008 and upcoming bids. While being relatively easy to navigate, the site has a tendency to be visually cluttered, especially on main pages. As advertising supports the site, the banners also contribute to the overall aesthetic busyness. Having operated for about three years, it is one of the best sources on the web for news and for links to other sites related to the Olympics.
  2. Light the Fire Within - The Governor's Music and Education Program: www.lightwithin.org/olylinks.html. This site is the Internet component of Governor of Utah Michael Leavitt's programme to provide "Utah K-12 students with a foundation of Olympic values through music and curriculum" in preparation for Salt Lake City's hosting of the 2002 Winter Games. The Olympic Links Page of the site provides excellent links to more research oriented sites and is a good navigation guide for Olympics research. It has a clean, minimalist and well-designed aesthetic with good use of graphics and white space. The links are well organized with critical, clear and concise commentary that is useful. While not entirely comprehensive, the site has provided the most substantive links for an online researcher.
  3. The Great Olympic Swindle - Olympic Links: ajennings.8m.com/links.htm. This links page provides an all-inclusive list of sites related to organizations and individuals critical of the Olympics, as well as recent news and articles or article series on problems related to the Games. The site's creator is Andrew Jennings, a well-known journalist who has written a series of books investigating the IOC and the Olympic 'movement'. The site, well not particularly graphically well-designed or interesting, is very easy to navigate. The links page operates as a nerve center on the pulse of the online anti-Olympic opposition and provides the researcher with the links necessary for alternative points of view. The rest of the site can perhaps be viewed primarily as an advertisement for Jennings' books.

Other Sites

  1. The Olympic Studies Centre and International Chair in Olympism at the University of Barcelona: http://www.blues.uab.es/olympic.studies/index.html. This trilingual site in English, Catalan and Spanish is fairly comprehensive. It includes books and working papers that you can purchase online, and also has many online documents on topics related to Olympic Studies. The site is reasonably well-designed and graphically pleasing, if not brilliantly so; but is not easy to navigate with inconsistent page headings and intrasite links. Perhaps the component of the site most useful to researchers is an online database. The "Olympic Studies International Directory" is searchable by author, institution, country or subject area. Given that the Directory is co-sponsored by the IOC's Olympic Museum, it surprisingly also includes Olympic scholars critical of the Games. Searches produce contact information on Olympic scholars and their research and publications that is very useful for further online, as well as library, research.
  2. The International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario: http://www.uwo.ca/olympic/index.html. This site is useful primarily for providing information on the Centre's activities, events, and publications. It does not provide much online documentation, and but provides limited bibliographic information related to its academic journal "Olympika". The site's graphics and navigability are average and it contains a design sensibility that verges upon being dated. However, given that the Centre appears to have very limited support from the University, it has developed a fairly respectable website.
  3. The University of Technology, Sydney - Working Towards Your Future in Sydney 2000 http://www.olympic.uts.edu.au/index.html. The UTS website documents the community projects undertaken in Sydney to supplement the Games as well as including a annotated bibliography with a myriad of publications by UTS community members under a diverse and wide-ranging list of topic headings. The site is simple, yet elegantly and very professionally well-designed and graphically pleasing and extremely easy to navigate.
  4. The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles www.aafla.org. The AAF possesses one of the world's largest collections of Olympics related material and is currently undertaking an ambitious effort to convert large amounts of its collected works into digital format. This excellent reference site is very well designed and easy to navigate, with the possible exception of its frames format restricting the amount of onscreen viewable material a bit too much. There appears to be a very large amount of Olympic related material available in Acrobat/pdf format, but unfortunately the virtual archives were closed for maintenance at the time this is written, so I was unable to utilize this feature. Overall however this is perhaps the best website for Olympic researchers looking for online secondary research.
  5. Olympic Museum Lausanne www.museum.olympic.org. This is the online site for the Olympic Museum located in Lausanne, Switzerland within the International Olympic Committee's headquarters complex. This site, (part of the IOC's official website), is extremely well designed and easy to navigate, and exemplifies the tremendous financial and info tech resources available to the IOC. The most relevant section of the site for researchers is the "Olympics Studies Centre", which is the repository of the Historical Archives, the Documentation Centre, and the Library, which have varying levels of access to the public. There is little online documentation beyond a link to the online directory of the Library's collection, but the site provides good access to communicate with researchers at the museum, who will provide the first two hours of their time for free.
  6. Bread not Circuses - a coalition of groups concerned about Toronto's 2008 Olympic Bid: www.breadnotcircuses.org. Bread not Circuses' website includes online articles and essays on mega-event impacts and the Olympics by leading Canadian and international journalists and scholars. The site is not well designed or graphically pleasing, but perhaps this is not unexpected given the very limited financial resources of BnC. However, despite the site's aesthetic limitations, the online essays provide good background for researchers interested in a critical perspective of the Olympics and its potential impacts upon urban areas.

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Destination Positioning

[Prepared by Gillian MacDonald, UBC Graduate Student]

Gateway Sites

  1. Tourism Research Links http://www.waksberg.com/index.html. Rene Waksberg created this comprehensive gateway site with the tourism researcher in mind. It states directly on the home page that the site is not intended for travelers, but rather for the researcher specifically. The site is divided into three main categories: Research, Niche Marketing, and Technology. Within those three categories are hundreds of links to organizations which manage, consult, or research tourism, as well as tourism schools. This gateway is a perfect starting point for any individual interested in conducting research on the travel industry, or more specifically on destination marketing and positioning. It is somewhat tedious going through the numerous sites available in order to find the best ones, but having such high quality travel research sites all in one spot is indispensable. Additionally the site is maintained regularly so as to ensure that the links are as up to date as possible.
  2. Tom Rourke's Home Page http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~trourke/. Tom Rourke is a doctoral student majoring in tourism planning at Clemson University in South Carolina. He has put together a web site that is useful for the tourism researcher. Similar to Rene Waksberg's site, it provides links to numerous academic journals as well as to organizations which deal with tourism and research. Rourke's web site, however, is more user friendly and is significantly more aesthetically pleasing that Waksberg's site. Many of the web sites found on gateway site #1 are the same as those on gateway site #2, but there are enough differences between them to merit including both as gateways.
  3. The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology Library http://www.chchpoly.ac.nz/library. This web page is located on the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's web site. On the library page of the web site is a category entitled "Resources by Subject". After clicking on that category, the "Commerce" heading will appear somewhere on the page with subheadings for "Hospitality", "Marketing" and "Travel & Tourism". All of these subheadings provide links to a variety of sources in their specific fields. Under the "Travel & Tourism" section, for example, there are links provided to a number of resources on the World Wide Web related to travel and tourism research. Some of the more important links with information concerning destination positioning are the Asia-Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, the Journal of Travel Research, as well as Eclipse 1, Eclipse 2 and ProQuest. ProQuest is a useful search engine for online ejournals.

Other Sites

  1. Alastair M. Morrison - Hospitality Consulting & Tourism Consulting, Tourism Marketing and Tourism Research http://www.omni.cc.purdue.edu/~alltson/Alastair.html. Alastair M. Morrison is a professor specializing in the areas of marketing and tourism with Purdue University's Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management Department. He is also the director of Purdue Tourism and Hospitality Research Centre (PT&HRC). This particular web site is Morrison's own home page and is extremely useful as a starting point for researchers interested in learning the basics of destination positioning and marketing. The most impressive and useful aspect of this particular site are the extensive PowerPoint presentations (ppt) Morrison provides for each chapter of his books the Tourism System and Hospitality and Travel Marketing. These ppts provide a wealth of information concerning marketing and the travel industry, and include some fabulous sections on positioning. Morrison's web site further includes a section on suggestions for World Wide Web (www) site design and development for destination marketing organizations. The web site also provides links to 79 tourism, hospitality, and leisure journals, as well as a link to a web site dedicated to current indices and abstracts from various journals (http://www.bubl.ac.uk/journals). The site also provides a bibliography of 632 tourism, hospitality, and leisure books, as well as a bibliography of Morrison's articles and conference papers.
  2. North Carolina Tourism: Resources in Education and Development http://www.nctourismresources.net/index.htm. This site was designed to bring together many different types of information in order to assist communities in their tourism development efforts. Similar to Alistair M. Morrison's home page, this web site provides several useful PowerPoint presentations dealing specifically with tourism and destination marketing located in the Hospitality/Tourism Education section. The site also provides links to tourism journals as well as sites providing travel statistics.
  3. Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/index.html. This web site provides a function that searches through 180,000 IU web pages. When the words destination, marketing are entered into the search function a number of useful documents appear. For example "The Pictorial Element of Destination Promotions in Tourist Destination Image Formation", "The Effect of Pull Factors Used to Influence Tourist Destination Choices on Retirement Destination Choices".
  4. International Centre of Studies on the Tourist Economy (CISET) http://helios.unive.it/~ciset/index.html. Established in 1991, CISET is an international centre of tourism economic studies, and is a member of the Business Council of the World Tourism Organization. CISET's mission is to carry out research and studies on tourism with particular emphasis on its national and international, regional and local, Italian and foreign economic aspects. The web site provides the researcher access to its publications, conferences and online documents. Of particular interest are the documents dealing with the Centre's research on tourism and hospitality management specifically one entitled From Destination to Destination Marketing Management. The Centre also offers its working papers to be sent free of charge to University libraries, teachers, researchers and consultants interested in tourism studies.
  5. Hotel Online - Where the Hospitality Industry Meets...Online http://www.hotel-online.com/Neo. This web site provides the latest and most relevant news, trends and discussion forums in the hospitality industry. The search function on this website provides access to numerous articles from various sources including academic journals and conferences. Entering the key words destination and positioning yields numerous results including "Positioning a Tourism Destination To Gain a Competitive Edge" from the Asia Pacific Journal. Numerous case studies also appear including "Positioning Sabah as an International Tourist Destination", presented at the Fourth International Conference "Tourism in Southeast Asia and Indo-China: Development, Marketing and Sustainability".
  6. Eclipse http://www.chchpoly.ac.nz/library/subject/eclipse1.pdf. The journal Eclipse is a destination marketing journal. Each issue covers a single theme in three sections, namely discussion, case study and research. Issue number one deals specifically with destination image, and thoroughly describes destination, image, perception, and positioning. It includes a case study on Japanese outbound travel, as well as a comprehensive section on "what the academics say" about the topic.

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BC and Canadian Tourism and Recreation Sources

Useful Tourism Research Websites

  1. BC Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture
    http://www.sbtc.gov.bc.ca
  2. BC Parks
    http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/bcparks
  3. BC Stats
    http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca
  4. Canadian Tourism Commission
    http://www.canadatourism.com
  5. Canadian Tourism Research Institute
    http://www.conferenceboard.ca/ctri
  6. Greater Vancouver Regional District
    http://www.gvrd.bc.ca
  7. Statistics Canada
    http://www.statscan.ca
  8. Tourism Vancouver
    http://www.tourismvancouver.com
  9. Vancouver Port Authority
    http://www.portvancouver.com
  10. World Tourism Organization
    http://www.world-tourism.org

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Additional Sources

Aboriginal Tourism Websites

  1. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Industry Strategy http://www.atsic.gov.au/programs/noticeboard/Industry_Strategies/tis/contents.asp
  2. Aboriginal Tourism Business Planning Guide http://www.mtec.mb.ca/products/aboriginal.html
  3. Aboriginal Heritage Walking Tour http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/tourism/freo_ab_heritage_walk.html
  4. http://www.aboriginaltouroperators.com.au/abaust
  5. http://www.abc.net.au/ola/tourism/transcripts/tran7.htm
  6. http://www.tourism.gov.au/publications/talent/tiwitours.html
  7. http://www.aboriginalexperiences.com/02--about_us/about_us.html
  8. http://www.aboriginalexperiences.com/04--experiences/programs/programs_voyageur.html
  9. http://www.city.brantford.on.ca/Tourism_/odrohekta.htm
  10. http://www.ari.unisa.edu.au/publications/accessing.html
  11. http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ps/ecd/ent/index_e.html
  12. http://www.familyholidays.com.au/living_outback.htm
  13. http://www.pch.gc.ca/mindep/perf/99-00/english/performance.html
  14. http://www.tjapukai.com.au/
  15. http://www.wettropics.gov.au/rah/heritage_home.htm
  16. http://www.tourism.gov.au/publications/talent/tjapukai.html
  17. http://www.abc.net.au/ola/tourism/default.htm

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