Tourism website claims to be comprehensive global directory

18 October 2007

The publishers of WorldTourismDirectory.com claims that it is the first globally accessible online information Web portal which provides tourism-related contacts and general information regarding almost every country and territory in the world.

WorldTourismDirectory.com is a co-production of Columbus Webservice, Jülich, and Vipex Media Service, Cologne (all in Germany). It is published in cooperation with the World Tourism Foundation, the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism, the International Council of Tourism Partners, the news agency eTurboNews.com, TravelTalkRadio.com, the eco-tourism portal Planeta.com and the German Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung (Institute for Tourism and Development).

According to the publishers, browsers of WorldTourismDirectory.com can use the navigation tools with ease and will be able to find over 120,000 addresses within 330 nations, countries and dependent territories.

Under every country listed on the website, there is a comprehensive index of over 100 categories.

These categories include:

• Government and national tourism bodies and their related agencies within a particular country and abroad.
• Regional tourism boards/associations and local key tourist offices.
• Institutes of tourism studies and academic institutes, tourism industry associations.
• Hotel chains, main reservation agencies, and incoming tour operators, airlines, railways, ferry services, and motoring associations. National parks and key eco-tourism associations.
• Tourist-related sports (mountaineering, winter sports, sailing, diving, tennis, golf, cycling, etc.).
• Travel trade and travel consumer media, foreign-language media and important publications, general government information sources/services, major business, trade and investment agencies, chambers of commerce.
• Umbrella organizations in culture and sciences.
• Embassies and consulates.

The publishers say that the level of geographical and thematic detail found in WorldTourismDirectory.com is possibly one of the most comprehensive references of “country information.” They further claim that the website incorporates in-depth lists of all the categories for each country – a service provided by no other directory, either on the internet or in print.

Detailed information has been given in the section titled ‘Embassies/Consulates’ which comes in handy for industry and traveler alike. Close co-operation with the British publishers World of Information (WI), through its portal WorldInformation.com and the tourist news service eTurboNews.com provide the visitor with constant updates on country information.

The content of the portal WorldTourismDirectory.com is mostly based on updated information from the former three volumes, the hard-copy publication titled World Tourism Directory, published earlier in association with the World Tourism Organization and the World Travel and Tourism Council.