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Articles and Tools
Ecotourism Concepts, Principles, and Applications 
Marketing strategy worksheet/questionnaire 
Travel market trends and predictions 2004
Marketing tourism online, part one: The Basics
Marketing tourism online, part two: Attracting visitors to your website
Communication goals for tourism audiences
Research and statistics
Waksberg Tourism Research Links 
: Links to web resources for tourism research, schools, publications, call for papers, jobs, technology, and consultants
Travel and Tourism Research Association : Large, categorized searchable research article database. Requires membership, from $45 (student) on up.
World Tourism Directory : Thorough, regularly updated resource for contact information of organizations and businesses associated with tourism, organized by country.
World Tourism Organization : Their tri-yearly "Barometer" publication is a good source of data for international arrivals and expenditures by country, and for market outlook surveys of tourism professionals. Subscriptions are paid, but the previous trimesters' reports are made available for free download.
World Travel and Tourism Council : The WTTC maintains a media and resources page and publishes several country-specific publications of research and recommendations each year. They have also recently developed a document called the "Blueprint for New Tourism".
The Travel Industry World Yearbook—The Big Picture : This yearbook covers the main events in the tourism industry and provides statistics and analysis by region, country, and industry sectors. Partial content of the previous years' publication is available online.
International Market Research Reports : Very reasonably priced reports on countries, regions, and sectors of the tourism industry.
List of international tourism boards : The Culturaltravels.com portal site maintains an extensive, searchable list of tourism boards from most every country. Tourism boards are good sources of research and statistics.
Traveldailynews.com : This news site maintains a research and statistics section.
Worldinformation.com : A huge repository of tourism-related and general facts about countries, news, international economic statistics, lists of tourism-related associations, and more.
Sustainable travel portals
Eco-club.com : A portal site and membership organization featuring an active bulletin board system for funding requests/opportunities, job listings, news, and expert profiles; and a monthly newsletter (a limited version is freely available to non-members).
Ecotourism.org : The website of the International Ecotourism Society has a large library of research reports and articles, a newsletter, job boards, project reports, and more.
Planeta.com : This portal site distinguishes itself by its online events and conferences related to ecotourism. It provides news, book reviews, destination information, and articles, as well.
