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.
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!
