Research Links

• Tourism Publications Online
• North American Tourism Research
• Tourism Insight - "provides tourism professionals with free, relevant and reliable information about knowledge and expertise related to tourism"
• Asia Tourism Research
• Tourism Geographies - abstracts available online
• The Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education - free access to online articles
• EBSCO Tourism & Hospitality Journals Index - a very comprehensive listing
• C.I.R.E.T. - International Center for Research and Study on Tourism

• International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
  - a project sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC)
• EcoWorld
  - an online resource for information on the status of the earth’s species and ecosystems as well as efforts underway planet-wide to preserve and restore these species and ecosystems

• National Geographic Society - Sustainable Tourism Resource Center - A comprehensive list of anotated links to sustainable tourism websites, organized by 'for Professional', 'for Travelers' and 'for Residents' - Click her for their market study of 'Geotourism'
• WWF - UK's Tourism Site - includes links to sustainable tourism online documents and policy statements
• René Waksberg's Tourism Research Links - one of the best lists of websites out there for tourism researchers
• Learning & Teaching Support Network: Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism - online resource guides, mostly related to Sport, with some tourism, an example is:
  • Resource Guide in Event Management - a free guide to teaching and research sources
• Destination Marketing Forum - online discussion forum
• Leisure Profession Mailing Lists - recreation & tourism - from The Leisure Information Network
• John Beech's Travel & Tourism Information Gateway -Also includes Leisure & Sports - British oriented, but also international
  
• AAG Recreation Tourism and Sport Specialty Group
  * Groupe Spécialisé de l'AAG sur la Récréation, le Tourisme et le Sport
• RGS / IBG - Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
• Geography of Health email discussion list
  
• Bibliography of the Anthropology of Tourism - with a focus on the Asia Pacific, part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Tourism Education Websites - from the UK universities-based Learning and Teaching Support Network
• World Travel and Tourism Council -
• Big Volcano Ecotourism Resource Centre - one of the best places to start looking into ecotourism-related topics, including links to online reports, as well as more general tourism resources
  * un des meilleurs sites pour examiner des sujets lié s au tourisme vert
• Altis - Guide to Internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism
• Fremdenverkehrsgeographie Forum - German site for students of Tourism Geography
• International Academy for the Study of Tourism

Graduate/Postgraduate Programs in Tourism Geography
(and programs closely affiliated with Geography)

• MSc in Tourism, Development and Policy
  School of Geographyand Archeology, University of Exeter, UK
  Programme Director: Professor Allan M. Williams
  
• MA in Tourism and Urban Culture
  The Leisure and Sport Research Unit and the Geography and Environmental Management Research Unit
  Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK
• Master in the Geography of Tourism
  Diplomstudiengang Geographie mit Schwerpunkt Angewandte Geographie / Fremdenverkehrsgeographie
  Geographic Institute/Department, University of Trier, Germany
• MA in Tourism, Culture and Environment
  University of Derby, Centre for International Tourism and Leisure Research
  Programme Leader: Professor David Crouch [Cultural Geography, Tourism and Leisure]
• Teaching Resources - from CHRIE - International Council On Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education
  
• PhDData.org - search on keywords to view abbstracts of current/in-progress Ph.D. dissertations

• IGU/UGI Homepage
  
• IGU VILLA CELIMONTANA
  Home of Geography - Maison de la Géographie - a resource for IGU members, located in Rome, Italy
• IGU Commission on Global Change and Human Mobility
  
• Links to Other IGU Comissions

General Geography Links

• Geographers.com
  - search engines for finding geographers on the WWW - search by name, publication and academic interests
• Commonewealthy Geography Bureau
• Geography Online
  - a free, web-based academic geography journal
• ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
  - a free, web-based academic geography journal
• World Information - a good website on the latest news, geography and traveler information for places around the world
• SECONS - Socio-Economics of Space - discussion forum and web-based journal (click here for an alternative link)

• Flying off to a Warmer Climate? - Flying is also the cheapest way to cook the planet -it's completely tax-free! - Allows you to find out how much fuel you will use and greenhouse emssions you will generate on your next flight. See ChooseClimate.org for affiliated sites.
• Tourism Impacts of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC
• Work To Live - Escape Magazines campaign to end America's "Vacation Deficit Disorder". Did you know that on average, Americans work two months longer every year than the typical German and two weeks longer than Japanese workers. Click on "Vacation Starvation" to see a full report on this issue.