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 Web resources

Airlineportal - directories of airlines, airports and other travel information.

Amadeus: Trip Tools - provides a wide range of tools & information for travel.

Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) - promotes tourism.

CIA World Factbook - detailed facts & figures about the countries of the world.

Guide to Australia - an encyclopaedic collection of essential information.

NSW Government: Culture & Recreation - access information about facilities, events & activities.

Public Toilet Map - shows the location of more than 14,000 public and private public toilet facilities across Australia.

Smarttraveller - travel advisories & information from the Australian Government.

TAFE Studylinks: Tourism - access a wide range of websites.

TAFE Studylinks: Travel - access a wide range of websites.

Tourism New Zealand - promotes tourism.

Travel Trade - a newspaper of the travel industry.

VisitEurope - gateway to the 36 countries of the European Travel Commission.

Wikitravel - aims to be a complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide.

World Maps - links to a large range of maps for each country.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 20 April, 2007

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