| Website | Evaluation |
| www.tia.org | Contains useful information on segments in the US market on reports weekend travellers, ethnic travellers and domestic tourism. The executive summaries of these reports can be downloaded which gives a concise picture of these market segments. |
| www.cia.org | Provides a general overview on countries of the world such as economy, geography, people, history and other information. It gives the reader a general idea of the country research is being conducted on. |
| www.world-tourism.org | This site is useful to for yearly outbound and inbound statistics for the USA and any other country for the period 1989-1999 |
| www.phocuswright.com | This site gives valuable information on travellers and the use of the internet. Some important articles on this site are: E-travel consumers: How they plan and buy leisure, Travel online market share growth strategies for online internet travel and Travellers use of the internet 2000. |
| www.cruiseindustrynews.com | This site basically details the newsletter and reports produced by cruise industry news. |
| http://www.tinet.ita.doc.gov/ | This site is quite useful for outbound data on the US market. It provides the latest statistics on inbound and outbound travel for the US. In addition, it also gives a breakdown profile of travellers and destinations visited. |
| www.leisuretourism.com | This site provides a useful abstract of publications produced on various sectors of the industry. |
| www.hotelnewsresource.com | This site provides useful source of information on the latest news in the hospitality industry. Areas of specific focus include: gaming, hotel, cruise, restaurant, travel, internet and technology. It also gives the user access to featured special reports in the hospitality industry completed by Arthur Andersen and D.K. Shifflets & Associates to name a few. The site also provides links to other news such as business and world news. |
| www.padi.com | This is the home site of PADI. It contains information on PADI, courses offered as well as regional and worldwide news on the diving industry such as new diving destinations, travel news, environment news etc. It also provides useful statistics on the characteristics of divers such as age, gender, income, occupation etc. |
| www.mlit.go.jp/english/index.html | This is the home page of the Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. It contains information on transport policy, motor vehicles, civil aviation, ports & harbours as well as public information. |
| www.japaninfo.org | This site contains information about Japan such as what one needs to know about going to Japan, airports in Japan, diving in Japan, regional information and other information such as raising kids in Japan. |
| www.jata-net.or.jp/english/ | This is the home site of Japanese Association of Travel Agents. It contains useful data on outbound travel for Japan for 2000 such as change in number of Japanese overseas travellers, overseas travellers by destination, age, airport etc. It also provides information on JATA and its products and services as well as links to the following websites: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Transport, Japan National Tourist Organisation, World Tourism Organisation and the Narita and Kansai International Airports. |
| http://jin.jcic.or.jp/stat | This is the home site of the Japan information Network Statistics. Statistics contained on this site include: Crime, Diplomacy, Economics, Education, Environment, Financial Affairs, Housing, Labour, Media, Politics, Women etc. |
| www.mofa.go.jp | This is the home site of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It contains information on foreign policy, regional affairs, economic affairs as well as updates on the “going-on” in Japan such as the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Japan summit etc. The site contains many useful links such as the WTO site, information on culture in Japan, women affairs etc. |
| www.findarticles.com | This site provides useful information on just about any topic that was written on. It serves as a search engine for articles from research publications such as travel agents. |
| www.census.gov | Provides latest information on population of the US. Information on last census 2000 plus historical data. |
| www.stat.go.jp | Website of Statistics Bureau and Statistics Centre Japan. Has information on population, senior citizens, population growth, etc. |
www.asiamaya.com www.asiaweek.com | These two websites provide articles from several Asian magazines, covering business, travel and tourism and economy news of the Asia Pacific Region. |
| www2.tjnet.co.jp | Article about travel news in Asia Pacific |
