Recommended Information Sources

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REFERENCES

Ecotourism Challenges
http://www.planeta.com/planeta/07/0708dialogue.html

Dialogue
http://forum.planeta.com/viewforum.php?f=103

[Will Parsons]

I find www.sustainabletravel.com tourism e-letter educational and informative and maybe of interest to other scribes.

[Noel Kennedy]

A list of sites I have found useful for ideas and benchmarks.
www.earthwatch.org.nz
www.cabbagetree.co.nz
www.volunteer.org.nz/carbon/
www.green-travel.com/gtdirog.htm
www.ecotourism.org/textfiles/ststs.txt
www.hawaii.gov/tourism/Eco/Ecoi.html
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/about/prodcat/perfrep.html
www.eecabusiness.govt.nz/emprove
www.mfe.govt.nz
www.greenglobenz.com
www.nothrow.co.nz
www.sustainable.org.nz
www.carbonzero.co.nz
www.carbonzero.co.nz/CarbonNZerocalculators.asp

Hope these prove useful. Noel

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Reference

Recommended Web Forums, Bulletin Boards and Portals
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/list.html

Among the faves, check out ECOCLUB, green-travel, planeta and irresponsible tourism

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Wildlife on Flickr

Australian Wildlife
http://www.flickr.com/groups/australian_wildlife

New Zealand Wildlife
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nzwildlife

Reference

Online Flickr
http://www.planeta.com/web/onlineflickr.html

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Recommended reading (PDF files)

Australian Experiences Industry Toolkit
http://tourism.australia.com/content/au ... t_2007.pdf

New Zealand Tourism Strategy 2015
http://www.nztourismstrategy.com

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The Parks Volunteer Network (PVN) brings together managers of volunteer programs running within our Australia and New Zealand parks.
http://www.parksforum.org/PVN/PVNhome.asp