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Marcus L. Endicott was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1959 of American
parents, and grew up in Switzerland. He
graduated from the then American International School of Zurich
in 1977, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology with a minor in
German from Western Carolina University in 1985, and was
granted an Approved Program in Adventure Travel in 1987. He has taught continuing
education classes in travel and tourism for WCU, and is a certified
Wilderness Education
Association Outdoor Leader.
The premier edition of his how-to book, Vagabond Globetrotting: State of the Art,
was published in 1984; the revised edition was published in 1989. In 1990, he bicycled
alone From the Balkans to the Baltics,
and became the first American to cross the Soviet border alone on a bicycle. On this trip
he visited green movements and
Green Parties
in all existing Eastern European countries, except Albania, to discuss
sustainable tourism and demonstrate Internet email, using a solar-powered
laptop computer. In 1991 he founded green-travel,
today the oldest and largest sustainable tourism group online. In the Spring of
1993, he coordinated Issue 38 of the KATUAH JOURNAL, the bioregional journal of Southern
Appalachia, on sustainable tourism. In 1994 he founded the
infotec-travel group, and published his second book, The Electronic
Traveler: Directory of Tourism Information Sources, which was the first book to
appear about travel information on the Internet. From 1992 to 1996 he co-hosted The WELL Travel Conference.
He currently resides in
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, and is
volunteer webmaster for the Byron CG Jung Society (jungbyronbay.org)
and the Northern NSW Ecotourism Association (nneta-ecotourism.org).
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