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Chapter 20 Tourism
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Merry
Hill Centre home page:
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An excellent promotional site, providing
all you need for a case study of a major indoor retail centre. Contains
details of how to get there (with maps!), plans of the various shopping
malls, lists of stores by retail category, press releases and an education
section.
http://www.merryhill.co.uk/ |
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J Sainsbury plc’s
Virtual Museum main page:
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Puts Sainsbury’s
archives to good educational use. There is much of interest here –
for example, 'Explore a Store' in the 1900s, for an insight into UK
retailing a century ago.
http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum.htm |
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Travel Association
of America Research Links main page:
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Provides
links to a huge array of tourism-related sites – everything from statistics
to airline timetables to wilderness lodges in Papua New Guinea!
http://www.tia.org/research/reslinks.asp#AirTravel |
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The Peak District
National Park home page:
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One
of the best National Park websites, containing official information
(press releases, reports), tourist information (what to see and do,
facilities, weather, travel links) and an education zone (21 fact
sheets on aspects of the physical and human geography of the park).
http://www.peakdistrict.org |
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Directory of
National Parks Worldwide:
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A giant site from Poland comprising links
to national parks around the world, arranged by continent and then
by country. If you get bored with this, try playing the park game!
http://hum.amu.edu..pl/~zbzw/ph/pnp/swiat.htm
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Yahoo!’s Parks
home page:
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A good short-cut to the national, state
and local parks of the USA, accessed by state or by region, with
maps.
http://parks.yahoo.com/
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Estonian Ecotourism
home page:
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A small pioneering site, offering the
hope of responsible tourism in Estonia. The gallery section contains
pictures of Estonian environments; good links page to other ecotourism
sites.
http://www.ecotourism.ee/eng.html
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