Tree Traveling Salesman Problems The well known Gilmore-Gomory Traveling Salesman Problem can be thought of as the following problem: Given line segments of a line, and the direction of traversal of each segment, we need to know the order in which these should be traversed so as to minimize the total distance traversed; note that the distance traversed from the end of one segement to the beginning of the next is wasted and it is this waste that we want to minimize. The generalization considered here is two fold: first we can choose the direction of traversal of each segment and second the these are line segments corresponding to paths in a tree between specified nodes. We show tha this problem is in general NP-hard.