ÿ@SUBJECT:Directory of travel information available via internet Message-ID: Newsgroup: rec.travel,rec.answers,news.answers Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Archive-name: travel/online-info ------------------------------------- SOURCES OF ON-LINE TRAVEL INFORMATION ------------------------------------- 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 . 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 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 . 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 . 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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus Lucian Endicott Pierre Flener Craig D. Rice Scott Yanoff -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Brian Lucas Just once, I'd like to meet someone on the net who *does* speak for their company.... ******************************************************************************