World Tourism Organization assigns Ingenta to create e-library
The World Tourism Organization has signed a major agreement with Ingenta plc, the leading provider of online publishing services to academic and professional publishers, to create an e-library.
The three-year agreement includes the creation and maintenance of the web service, which officially launches at the Organization’s General Assembly in Beijing this October. A fully indexed and cross-searchable database of over 200 full-text reports published by the WTO, the service offers its 141 member states full free access to the service, while tiered subscriptions are available for associate members, libraries and individual users.
Dr Dirk Glaesser, Chief of Publications, said of the new service, "The World Tourism Organization serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how and statistics. The new e-library, powered by Ingenta, is ideal for communicating detailed research in an immediate and controlled medium to millions of individuals worldwide."
“Creating an e-library of this scale is a challenge,” said Simon Dessain, Chief Operating Officer, Ingenta. “But, the knowledge we have of working with similarly global organizations, such as the OECD and World Bank, gives us the knowledge to create a truly effective and efficient web service for the world’s tourism community.”
The World Tourism Organization prides itself on being the most complete and reliable sources of tourism statistics in the world. Its recommendations on tourism statistics were adopted by the United Nations in 1993 and are being implemented by countries around the world, creating a common language of tourism statistics that allows destinations to compare their success with that of their competitors. An archive of statistics, analysis and forecasts is held in the e-library.
In addition to providing an online journal service via Ingenta.com and IngentaSelect.com, Ingenta has built more than 60 publisher-branded websites for its clients and hundreds of journal websites ranging from branded home pages to highly customised stand alone websites. Ingenta continues to be the first choice for institutions, libraries and individual researchers to access electronic scholarly and professional content. Nearly 15,000 institutions worldwide are registered with Ingenta, where 1.8m articles are delivered each month.
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For more information, please visit Ingenta at www.ingenta.com and the WTO at www.world-tourism.org.
Ingenta contact:
Amanda Procter
Tel: +44 (0)1865 799022
email: amanda.procter@ingenta.com
World Tourism Organization contact:
Dr Dirk Glaesser
Chief of Publications
Tel: +34 91 5678 117
e-mail: glaesser@world-tourism.org Email: amanda.procter@ingenta.com
About the World Tourism Organization:
www.world-tourism.org
The World Tourism Organization is the leading international organization in the field of travel and tourism. It serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how and statistics. Its membership includes 141 countries, seven territories and some 350 Affiliate Members representing regional and local promotion boards, tourism trade associations, educational institutions and private sector companies, including airlines, hotel groups and tour operators.
With its headquarters in Madrid and an international staff of 90 tourism specialists, WTO is an intergovernmental organization vested by the United Nations with a central and decisive role in promoting the development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
Through tourism, WTO aims to stimulate economic growth and job creation, provide incentives for protecting the environment and cultural heritage, and promote peace, prosperity and respect for human rights.
About Ingenta
www.ingenta.com
Ingenta is the global market leader in the management and distribution of published scientific, professional and academic research via the Internet, and develops and maintains specialist websites for publishers, self-publishing societies and libraries.
For publishers of scientific, professional and academic periodicals, journals and reference works, Ingenta provides a suite of publisher services including data conversion, secure online hosting, access control and distribution services. For libraries and information professionals, Ingenta offers collection management and comprehensive document delivery options. Ingenta’s collection of research content – 13 million articles from more than 6,000 online publications and 27,000 fax and Ariel delivered publications – is accessed by millions of researchers and librarians a month via ingenta.com and other websites.
In October 2000, 2001 and 2002, InfoWorld named Ingenta one of the world’s top 100 e-business companies. In December 2002 Econtent magazine featured Ingenta in its 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Ingenta is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
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