Free Downloadable Articles & Reports
After the Tsunami: Rapid Environmental Assessment
by UNEP
Underlines the importance of managing the reconstruction in an
environmentally sensitive way. Full text of the entire report (pdf- 9.33
Mb)  http://mirror.unep.org/tsunami/tsunami_rpt.asp
New Books
Horn of Plenty, Seasons in an Island Wilderness,
by April Newlin, photographs by Donald Bradburn, University Press of
Mississippi. ISBN1-57806-681-06, cloth, $28.
The author, a clinical psychologist and freelance nature writer, wrote
this - her first - book having spent four seasons on Horn Island, a
captivating barrier island, ten miles off the Missisippi coast, 13 miles
long x 1 mile wide, which enjoys protection as part of the Gulf Islands
National Seashore. "Horn Island rises out of the sea, a wilderness
of slash pine, sea oats and osprey". April Newlin, an award-winning
author, tells the story in a personal, humorous but also well-researched
way. We learn of the islands peculiar history, from how it was named by
French sailors, to being (ab)used during the WW2 as a US Navy test site
for biological agents, subsequently cleaned and restored, and now
visited by some 50,000 annually. The emphasis is on deep nature
appreciation revealing this talented authors psychology background,
however a chapter with practical tourism policy-related recommendations
would have been very useful from such a meticulous observer. Accompanied
by a detailed list of flora and fauna, and a few beautiful black and
white photos by award winning conservation photographer Donald Bradburn.
Perhaps some colour photographs could be added in a future edition to do
justice to this enthusiastic description of a special place. March 2005,
208 pages (approx.), 61/8 x 91/4 inches, 10 b&w photographs, 5 maps,
appendixes, bibliography, index. More information at:
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/spring2005/horn_of_plenty.html
New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger
Practices
Edited by T V Singh, Centre for Tourism Research and Development,
Lucknow, India, September 2004 240 pages.
Contains case-studies of a
wide variety of extreme and unusual tourism experiences resulting from a
growing demand from tourists for amazing and bizarre experiences.
Discusses polar tourism, pro-poor & volunteer tourism, ecotourism,
senior citizen tourism, war tourism and even space tourism.
More
Information
Free Resources
The World Tourism Directory
is now available online at WorldTourismDirectory.com. With 110,000
entries from 330 countries, states, and territories, the directory is
the most comprehensive tourism industry directory. Edited by veteran
tourism information maven Burkhard Herbote, it is the result of over a
decade of data collection. The directory includes contact information
for ministries of tourism; national, regional, local tourist boards;
tourism and travel industry associations; a huge list of inbound tour
operators; airline companies; accommodation associations; outdoor and
recreational activity associations; tourism media (press and consumer);
general country information sources like a most comprehensive directory
of embassies and consulates, but also general trade/economic information
sources like investment authorities, chambers of commerce, etc. It also
includes a comprehensive listing of international tourism associations,
organisations and services.
http://www.worldtourismdirectory.com
WorldWind by Nasa - Open Source, digital images of the Earth.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
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