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From: lucas@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brian Lucas)
Subject: Directory of travel information available via internet 
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Summary: A list of internet information sources - mailing lists, 
	ftp sites, listservs, etc - of interest to travellers.
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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 
<Brian_Lucas@umanitoba.ca>.  Instructions for anonymous ftp are attached
at the end of this file.

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 
  igc.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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The following is a quick description of how to use anonymous ftp.  The
site referred to is the travel archive at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca, but the
same principles apply to any other site.


How to use anonymous ftp
------------------------

If you have ftp client software at your site, it's easy.  Try typing 
"ftp ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca" and you should be told, after a short pause, that
you are connected and you'll be asked to enter your login name.  Type
"anonymous".  You'll be asked for a password; enter your email address.
You're logged in!  Type "cd rec-travel" to get to the rec.travel 
archive directory.  Type "dir" or "ls" to list the files in the directory,
and type "get filename" to get a file you want.  Replace 'filename' with 
the name of the file, of course: "get 00index", "get tourism-offices", etc.
There are several subdirectories; you can cd to them as well.  Type "cd
pacific" or any directory name, then "ls" the files and "get..." any files
you want.  When you're finished, type "quit".


How to use ftp by mail
----------------------

If you can't ftp directly from your site (ask your local support staff first),
use one of the following ftp-by-mail servers:

  ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com          ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
  ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au           ftpmail@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr

Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines:

reply your_address@some.where     <- replace with your real email address
connect ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca
ascii
get rec-travel/00index
quit

You can "get" any file in the archive this way.  You can also include the
line "cd" to change directories and "ls" to list the files in any directory.
For complete instructions, send a one-line message reading "help" to the 
server.

BITNET users, send a one-line message "help" to bitftp@pucc.bitnet to 
find out your best option.

-- 
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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