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The Destination Meta-Guide.com 2.0 is a powerful research tool, or discovery engine.  It consists of pre-programmed links to existing search devices, which return dynamic - ever changing results.  It provides a special way of looking at the geographical world through the structure of the Internet.  A few countries are too large for best results, and a few too small, however most countries return useful if not unique results.

About

The Destination Meta-Guide.com is a project developed over many years by travel writer and author Marcus L. Endicott, mainly for his own purposes (R&D).  It has been his attempt to represent the bulk of travel and tourism resources available online from a destination perspective in a single place.  The project began in early 1998 as an outgrowth of his "GREEN-TRAVEL Ecotourism Meta-Guide", part of the "GREEN-TRAVEL World Ecotourism Directory" section of the old green-travel.com site.  meta-guide.com was first archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine in February 2001.


Features

One of the basic ideas of this site is not to have any static content at all (except for this page of course), in other words it is fully automatic... and up to date!  Every page contains the world navbar to the left and very latest green travel news for all countries to the right.  Below latest green travel news to the right is today's popular pages widget.  Above every page contains full bookmarking, custom site search, and who's on now widget.  At the foot of every page, you may leave a comment.  Additionally at the foot of every page are keyword links, which show the standing of that page in Google for those keywords. 

Further to the left of the world navbar, you can find links to buy your copy the book, VAGABOND GLOBETROTTING 3, ideal preparation for travel, or try calling the author, Marcus Endicott, with the new Skype Prime service for personal help with your plans.  {Hello?  Who you gonna call?}

AUSTRALIA : Every country has a page (234x) and that page contains three central sections.  The first is the latest green travel news for that country.  The second is up to the ten most recent postings about that country to the green-travel group.  And the third is a special search of that country's domain for green travel related web sites.

Guide | The Guide page for each country is an experimental listing about that country's geography, climate, environment and history.  It also contains protected areas, environmental organizations, heritage sites and cultural organizations when there are any available for that country, so is most effective for larger countries.

Development Agencies | The Development Agencies page for each country consists of a special search for green travel information only from well known international agencies in the field of sustainable development.  This page also contains a cloud of extracted terms in summary. 

Development Banks | The Development Banks page for each country focuses the search for green travel information only on major multinational financial institutions involved with facilitating sustainable development, also with summary cloud.

UN Agencies | The UN Agencies pages focus the green travel search on the myriad United Nations organs working toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with summary cloud.

NGOs | The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) page searches just the big NGOs (BINGOs) for their country-specific involvement in the development of green travel, including summary cloud.

Foundations | The Foundations page examines the world's nonprofit charitable organizations for their country-specific contributions to the greening of travel, with summary cloud.

Professionals | The Professionals page for every country searches the primary business networking sites for people involved in the tourism industry who have experience related to that particular country, including summary cloud.

Travel Industry | The Travel Industry pages look at the .travel (dot travel) domain, major travel industry organizations and significant progressive tour companies for green travel information, includes cloud summaries. 

Journals | The Journals page for each country checks for the most recent in depth coverage of green travel topics by academic and scholarly journals for that country, key terms are summarized in the cloud at top.

Blogosphere | And then there is the Blogosphere... this page searches for the latest blog postings with candid green travel information about the given country.  This too is summary clouded.

Web 2.0 | The "Web 2.0" page for each country searches social networking sites and popular travel forums for green travel information about that country, and is summarized in the cloud.

Videos | The new Videos page for each country shows green travel videos for that country when available and otherwise includes the latest country-specific travel videos.

Note, if you see anything in this site that you don't like or you think shouldn't be here... please leave a comment to that effect at the foot of any page!


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Puerto Rico Tourism Company to host first market place for small ... - Travel Daily News International
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Algarve cruise tourism boost - Portugal News
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