Gateway Sites

1. http://sparky.sscl.uwo.ca/tour.html University of Western Ontario - Geography
   
   
2. http://www.vir.com./~chamonix.tourism.htm Tourism Resources - A listing of organisations that manage, consult or research tourism (planning, development ...)
   
   
3. http://www.achilles.net/~council/soc_ind.html The Social Indicator Site
   
   

Other Links

1. This web page: http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~allston/journals.htm contains the most comprehensive listing of referred academic journals that contained articles and research studies relating to the topic of social impacts of tourism.
   
   
2. This page: http://www.moc.govt.nz//tpg//workareas.html has hyperlinks to consultants reports (some in summary, some in full); research reports; task force reports; working group reports and general publications for the Policy Group (formerly the Ministry of Tourism). This page gives an insightful view of the New Zealand Government's policy and approach to dealing with social impacts of tourism.
   
   
3. This page: http://kumu.icsd.hawaii.gov/tourism/STP/Env.html outlines Tourism Hawaii's concerns for the tourist situation and its strategy to deal with it. The strategy starts out with a SWOT analysis, which gives a clear indication of prevalent social impacts.
   
   
4. Tournet: http://www.gci.ch/tournet/tourlinks.html has been created by representatives of UNESCO; IFTO; WTTC; UNEP and some academic institutions. It is an action oriented enterprise to accelerate the understanding and application of a comprehensive notion of sustainable tourism on a global scale
   
   
5. This page: http://www.ccsd.ca/lp.html is not a tourism page but a more general page to give an appreciation of some of the potential 'social indicators' that are being developed and to give a policy maker or planner some idea as to what could be applied/adapted to the tourism case.