Welcome to the website of Burkhard Herbote, Beckum, Germany, and his international network.
Burkhard is founder and editor of the © WorldTourismDirectory.com website, with about 130,000 entries probable the world’s most comprehensive tourism information online directory (except worldwide hotel guides) for the international travel community and the traveling consumer, who both rely on the accuracy of its content.
The WorldTourismDirectory.com website contains, country by country, all international, national, regional, local tourism authorities, associations and organizations, and a huge number of travel services, corporations and travel and tourism media, government information sources, embassies and consulates, chambers of commerce, tourism investment agencies, non-profit organizations and much more. It also provides the most comprehensive listing of international associations, organizations and services in travel and tourism.
Further he is founder and editor of © Laenderkontakte.de – Verzeichnis der deutsch-internationalen Beziehungen (Directory of German International Relations), the former Handbuch der deutsch-internationalen Beziehungen (Handbook of German International Relations), with about 40,000 entries of German and foreign representations abroad and in Germany, liaison offices and information centres for politics, foreign economics and banks, cultural exchange, education, media, development, international co-operation, humanitarian assistance, human rights, science, research, tourism, travel, transport, interreligious dialogue, integration, refugees, asylum and environmental conservation and protection. Both online publications used to be books before. (First publishing 1991, resp. 1993).
More details on this website.
Social Profile
Vita Burkhard Herbote
Interviews
Video Herbote International Research
Herbote International Research
Welcome to my small editorial office, my "control center" from which I communicate with the whole world since the 1980s when I...
About Herbote.com
Interviews with Burkhard Herbote
A Conversation with Burkhard Herbote and Planeta.com
In creating the first publication of global tourism contacts, German national Burkhard Herbote has been providing great sources to travel information for nearly two decades.
Based in...
EcoClub interviews Mr. Tourism Information
Burkhard Herbote is recognised as an international authority on, and a source of, travel-related information, in particular tourism, aviation, hospitality and tourism media. He...
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Acknowledgements (German)
Ich bedanke mich für die folgenden „Blumen“, gebe aber einen Großteil davon wieder an meine Helfer rund um den Globus zurück, ohne die meine...
Acknowledgements (English)
I would like to thank everyone for the following compliments, but give most of it back to my editorial contributors and other contacts around...
Professionell
Visited Organizations
Africa Institute, New York
Africa Travel Association, New York
Auswärtiges Amt (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Bonn/Berlin
Bonner Parlamentarische Gesellschaft, Bonn
Commonwealth Institute, London
Caribbean Tourism Organization, New York
Deutsche Afrika...
Publications
WorldTourismDirectory.com, 2012 shifted to Tourism Net Trading Ltd., London, United Kingdom
WorldTourismDirectory.com + Laenderkontakte.de, 2010 shifted to Dynamic Works GmbH, Meinerzhagen, Germany
WorldTourismDirectory.com...
Country archive donated
Aktualisierung:
Das Archiv wurde im Frühjahr 2013 an das HAT Historische Archiv für Tourismus der Technischen Universität Berlin gestiftet. http://www.hist-soz.de/hat/archivtxt.html
Der unten stehende Text verbleibt zur Information...
About Burkhard Herbote
Book Store & Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Please find book reviews for our World Tourism Directory and the Handbuch für deutsch-internationale Beziehungen (Handbook of German International Relations) with our section „Recommendations / Testimonials“.
Book Store
Our hard copy publications are sold out. Please refer to our online publications.
However, we have seen several titles available via ebay or Amazon (second hand).
Our „Worldwide Travel Information Contact Book“ used to be published by the world’s leader of academic reference publications, Gale Research, Inc., in Detroit...
Burkhard Herbote
Burkhard Herbote lives and works in Beckum, Germany (https://www.muensterland.com/tourismus/orte-muensterland/orte-staedte-im-muensterland/beckum-tourismus/) a small city in the heart of the German region of Westphalia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalia).
Since the 80s he has been well-known as an international „information authority“. He operates a huge network of information contacts and correspondents around the globe.
His main specializations are travel and tourism, tourism administration and politics, sustainable and responsible travel and tourism, aviation, hospitality and tourism media. He is also interested in German international...
Country archive donated
Aktualisierung:
Das Archiv wurde im Frühjahr 2013 an das HAT Historische Archiv für Tourismus der Technischen Universität Berlin gestiftet. http://www.hist-soz.de/hat/archivtxt.html
Der unten stehende Text verbleibt zur Information auf dieser Website.
Als vor 25 Jahren Burkhard Herbote, seinerzeit Handelsschüler, anfing Länderinfos zu sammeln, wie andere Briefmarken, Bierdeckel oder Autogrammkarten, war nicht klar, welche Ausmaße das eines Tages annehmen und welche Entwicklung dieser Sammelei folgen würde.
Er spezialisierte sich schnell auf die Länder und Regionen, die zu der Zeit eher unbekannt,...
Curriculum Vitae
Nationality: German
Date of Birth: August 16, 1965
Place of Birth: Beckum, Westphalia, Germany (www.beckum.de)
Parents: Bernhard Herbote, consultant of the furniture industry, Maria Herbote (maiden name Stemich), office clerk
1971 – 1975 Ketteler-Grundschule, Beckum
1975 – 1980 Ketteler-Hauptschule, Beckum
1980 – 1984 Kaufmännische Unterrichtsanstalten des Kreises Warendorf, Ahlen (= commercial and vocational college, now Berufskolleg des Kreises Warendorf in Ahlen); completed final examination by the Chamber of Commerce & Industry Muenster
1982...
EcoClub interviews Mr. Tourism Information
Burkhard Herbote is recognised as an international authority on, and a source of, travel-related information, in particular tourism, aviation, hospitality and tourism media. He is also interested in German international relations, cultural exchange, foreign trade, third world problems, development and human rights issues. As a member of several travel, tourism, cultural and bi-national associations, Mr Herbote writes regularly for German magazines and newspapers and makes frequent guest appearances on German radio.
Burkhard Herbote began his...
How to find us?
Route Planners:
Visits by appointment only!
Information about our place Beckum (German only, sorry)
www.beckum.de (municipality)
www.muensterland-tourismus.de/21740/beckum-tourismus (tourism info, incl. video)
www.beckum.info (private city portal)
www.dein-beckum.de (private city portal)
www.gewerbeverein-beckum.de (local trade association)
www.die-glocke.de (our local daily)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckum
Links of herbote.com
We are not responsible for the content of external websites!
(Find some links to German websites below of the English ones.
Einige weitere Links zu deutschen Websites finden Sie unter der englischen Liste.)
Please visit our key products:
WorldTourismDirectory.com
www.worldtourismdirectory.com
Laenderkontakte.de – Verzeichnis der deutsch-internationalen Beziehungen
www.laenderkontakte.de (currently offline)
(Directory of German International Relations)
Country Information
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (London) - Foreign Travel Advice
www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice
InfoPlease – Countries of the World
www.infoplease.com/world/countries
The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency
www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
U.S. Department of State, Consular Affairs (Washington DC) Country...
Professional Profile – Burkhard Herbote
Burkhard Herbote was born in 1965 in Beckum Germany. Industrial Management Assistant Marketing and Sales (Export) is his initial profession. Burkhard started creating an archive with “not easy to reach” destinations in the 80s.
This exotic archive was often mentioned in German newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media. Professional tourism companies obtained information to get contacts about new or “difficult” destinations. Burkhard started creating the first global “guide to the guides of tourism and country information”,...
