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Travel information resources for countries around the world.
Travel and Tourism Information :
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Citysearch
Citysearch is an online city guide that
provides information about businesses in the categories of dining,
entertainment, retail, travel, and professional services in cities throughout
the United States. Visitors to each of Citysearch's local city guides will find
contact information, maps, driving directions, editorial, and user reviews for
the businesses listed.
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Eurotrotter
This site gives you easy and convenient access
to thousands of internet sites about travel and holidays that will enable you to
explore your destination, find an accommodation, book a journey or holidays and
lead you to all kinds of service-organisations that can be useful to you as a
traveler. We hope you'll find the information you need to prepare your journey.
These travel and vacation site gives you an easy and convenient access to many
thousands of sites that you help your holiday destination in Europe to explore
an accommodation or transportation to find a trip or holiday books and various
services to look up to you your travel may be helpful. Eurotrotter is the site
with holiday tips and travel information on campsites, hotels, holiday resorts,
cruises, route planning and many more in Europe.
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IgoUgo
IgoUgo is an online travel community and
travel-planning resource. Winner of the 2004 Webby Award for “Best Travel Site
in the U.S.,” IgoUgo rewards its contributing writers and photographers with "GO
Points", which can be redeemed for gift cards to online retailers, frequent
flyer miles and other travel products.
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IExplore
Want to fly a float plane to the Great Barrier
Reef? Raft the Urubamba River through the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru?
Affiliated with National Geographic, this impressive full-service site offers
more than 3,000 prescreened trips by IExplore and independent tour operators
such as GAP Adventures and Abercrombie & Kent. Search by country, activity,
price, date and even trip comfort level. Trip profiles include day-by-day
itineraries with map diagrams. Purchase trips online, then load up on gear at
the online store.
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Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book
and digital media publisher in the world. Originally called Lonely Planet
Publications, the company changed its name to Lonely Planet in July 2009 to
reflect its broad travel industry offering and the emphasis on digital products.
After Let's Go Travel Guides, it was one of the first series of travel books
aimed at backpackers and other low-cost travellers. As of 2009, it published
about 500 titles in 8 languages, with annual sales of more than six million
guidebooks, as well as TV programs, a magazine, mobile phone applications and
websites.
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Magellans
This comprehensive gear and guidance site
offers almost any kind of equipment you need for your next journey, from
Uri-Mate, the hole-in-the-floor toilet aid, to currency converters to water
purifiers. Browse by categories like Safety & Security, Health, Packing or
Appliances. Going to Algeria? Shop by destination (from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe)
or check the Travel Advice section for a country report, which runs down issues
like local health and security risks, modem/phone use and recommends relevant
products, like which adapters to buy. (Not all telephones have modular
connections, warns the site, but the French adapter kit will normally work).
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Roadfood
Great regional meals along highways, in small
towns and in city neighborhoods. It is sleeves-up food made by cooks, bakers,
pitmasters, and sandwich-makers who are America’s culinary folk artists.
Roadfood is almost always informal and inexpensive; and the best Roadfood
restaurants are colorful places enjoyed by locals (and savvy travelers) for
their character as well as their menu.
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Tales from a Small Planet
How are things looking on the ground there in
Kabul? Any insight into recent developments in the Philippines? Culling the
first-hand experience of American Foreign Service workers, their spouses and a
variety of other expats, you'll find answers in the Real Post Reports. Thorough
and intimate accounts of life abroad from the American perspective are available
from almost every corner of the planet. Click in and you'll discover that
Peruvian's love the beach but despise cats (poison is sold in supermarkets). For
parents, there's a great list of international schools arranged by country.
While the Web site caters to expats, travelers, diplomats and even the military,
it is geared toward members of the Foreign Service community. Nevertheless, the
post reports are an excellent resource for anyone living overseas.
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Travel Channel
The Travel Channel is a cable television
network that features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and
leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has
included shows in African animal safaris, tours of grand hotels, and visits to
significant cities and towns, with recent programming putting an emphasis on how
the rich travel and on "haunted" destinations, like Most Haunted.
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TripAdvisor.com
TripAdvisor.com is a free travel guide and
research website that hosts reviews from users and other information designed to
help plan a vacation. TripAdvisor is an example of consumer generated media. The
website services are free to users who provide content, and the website makes
its money from advertising, mostly from travel-related industries.
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VEGAS.com
VEGAS.com, LLC is a city specific travel
website that focuses on information about Las Vegas, Nevada. The site is the
'largest online booker for entertainment, hotels, restaurants, tours, golf and
other services' for Las Vegas. With corporate offices located in Henderson,
Nevada, VEGAS.com is one of the Greenspun Family of Companies.
The website offers a full range of Vegas-specific travel products, including
hotel rooms, air-hotel packages, show tickets, front-of-the-line nightclub
passes, tours and golf. The web site was named as one of the "50 most popular
travel Web sites" by the Chicago Tribune in 2005.
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Virtualtourist
Virtualtourist is a free, travel-oriented
community website featuring user-contributed travel guides for locations
worldwide. With over a million registered members, the website offers 1.6
million travel reviews and 3.3 million photos on over 58,000 destinations.
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Wikitravel
Wikitravel is a Web-based project "to create a
free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide." Launched in
July 2003 by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins, the Web site is based upon
the wiki model, using the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. In
2006, Internet Brands bought the trademark and servers and later introduced
advertising to the website. Wikitravel received a Webby Award for Best Travel
Website in 2007. That same year, Wikitravel's founders began Wikitravel Press,
which publishes printed travel guides based on the Web site's content. The first
print guides were released on February 1, 2008.
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Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for
both travel destinations and travel topics written by voluntary authors. The
name is a blend of the words “Wiki” (an Internet based software system that
allows change and extension of the text by any user) and “Voyage”, the French
word for travel, journey, voyage, or trip.
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Woodall's
Since 1935, Woodall's has been printing camping
directories akin to Rand McNally road atlases for the tent and trailer crowd.
And while the online version constantly pushes its print directories, there is
plenty of useful info here. Find over 14,000 RV camps such as Harper Ferry's in
West Virginia with its modem-friendly hook-ups and kayaking. Or peruse various
tent camps such as San Bernardino in Calif. to take a ghost tour. Join others in
the Open Road Forum to discuss what it's like being a full-time RVer, or the
most traffic free route to take to get to West Point, New York. Novice campers
will find advice on must-haves for family tenting trips such as cheap ponchos, a
cooking tarp and of course, rope for keeping food out of reach of bears.
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