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WikiProject Tourism was started on May 17, 2007 to coordinate work for and expand coverage of tourism and related subjects in the English Wikipedia.

Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up below and post any ideas and suggestions on the Talk page. Also, feel free to edit this page and add any articles that need serious work or that you feel require attention below in the Tasks section.

[edit] Scope and Introduction

This WikiProject aims to coordinate and help maintain the development of and improvements to articles related to tourism. Below, you will find tasks, and other information related to the WikiProject.

[edit] Tourism vs. Travel

Travel is the physical movement from place to place. For example, trains, airlines, and subway stations should be included in travel. However, these are not appropriate topics for tourism, unless there are special circumstances. Tourism is the act of going somewhere or doing something that is not done in the daily routine, or around one's hometown (in most cases), for the act of leisure or recreational purposes, for a period of time, usually longer than 24 hours. However, when a conflict arises, the best thing to do would be to leave it as it is for the moment, and bring the issue to the WikiProject Tourism talkpage. From there, we can build concensus. The debates should not be like XfDs in the term of the duration of debates. 2-3 days would be sufficient in most cases.

Note:WikiProject Tourism focuses on articles related to actual tourism, not tourism destinations. For example, Tourism in Japan or adventure tourism would be appropriate topics. The Eiffel Tower or The Louvre would not.

Note:If you believe there is something wrong with the definition, or you would like to add to it, go ahead. We welcome expansions and corrections of this to help the project.

[edit] Participants

To become a project member, please edit this section to add your name, along with an optional short bio to the bottom. You may also add the the {{User WPTOUR}} userbox to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project. We currently need as much help as we can get, so please consider signing up.


[edit] Coordinators

Coordinators are volunteers that are interested in helping "running" the project in a way. This does not mean that they control the project, or are the "CEOs" of it. It means that they would like to accept a responsibility.

[edit] Coordinators

Cool Blue (talk · contribs) - I am the creator of the project, and a current coordinator. I plan to spend a lot of time with the Project.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Tasks

Feel free to add any tourism-related articles that need to be addressed or improved, in addition to general tasks.

  • Get a peer review for space tourism, and see what we can do to get it to GA.
  • Cleanup volunteer vacation. The article sounds more like a dedicated volunteer vacation site, than an encyclopedia.
  • Cleanup Backpacking (travel). The article has been less than useful almost since its creation. I self-nominated for this after realising there was little I could do for YHA. This has been do ne, while I don't think the article is perfect, I think it's a marked improvement from what it was and am hoping the NPOV tag will go away soon. Off to tackle some others. Travellingcari 15:57, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Create new Tourism in ____ articles with the countries in Africa. Per this:
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Tourism in Africa
Sovereign states

Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories

Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte / Réunion (France) · Puntland · St. Helena (UK) · Socotra (Yemen) · Somaliland · Southern Sudan · Western Sahara · Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Italics indicate an unrecognised or partially recognised country.

We don't have very many tourism-related Africa articles. Also, be sure to check the templates for other continents, too.


[edit] Continuous

  • Keep all tourism-related articles properly categorized.
  • Patrol changes to tourism-related articles.
  • Add {{TourismProject}} to the talk pages of all tourism-related articles.
  • Add the {{tourism-stub}} template to all existing tourism-related stub articles.
  • Add all tourism-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism to the Project Watchlist.
  • Target tourism-related articles to take to Good or Featured status.
  • Help create this infobox for hotels.

[edit] Vandalism Patrol

For changes to all tourism-related articles, see the Project Recentchanges. Also, add all tourism-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism to the Project Watchlist.

[edit] Requested articles

These are potential articles that project members have requested be created for the Wikipedia. If you know of a notable subject for an article that isn't listed here and want to create the article right away, please do so.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Assessment

We follow the scale at WikiProject Tourism/Assessment. For articles that need to be assessed, see Category:Unassessed Tourism articles and Category:Unknown-importance Tourism articles.

[edit] Categories

As of now, we have , all the Category:______-class Tourism articles, and all of the Category:_______-importance Tourism articles.