These
travel guides, destination sections of online travel companies, and directories
are some of the most popular ones on the web. They have comprehensive
travel and destination information. Almost all online travel
agencies also have extensive destination and travel information.
This list also contains travel guides and travel resources you can get to
without having to go to a travel agency site. We also include
well-known travel guides whose websites describe the paperback editions
they publish even if they do not have online travel information or only have
summary information.
Some Gold Star Sites.
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If you are a world traveler, for a very special treat, try the
SuperTravelNet.com website. This is how you dreamed a world travel
website should be navigated. Start with an interactive map of the world,
zoom in and keep zooming until you find an area of a country you are
interested in. What is the special treat? As you zoom in there is a list of
cities and villages to the side of the map and information categories that
are within the chosen area. This is a Gold Star site in our
book. Another Gold Star site for world city guides is the fantastic
World
Executive website. (Didn't you get a gold star when you were in school?)
For those hitting the road in the United States or Canada, Travelocity has
put together some local discoveries you might want to visit on your trip or
if they are within a day trip from where you live. They call them
Local Secrets - Big Finds.
Travel Guide Reviews. Here are some websites that have reviews
of travel guidebook series and websites: Book Reviews:
Kingwood College
Library,
Independent Traveler.com Website Reviews:
ConsumerSearch,
Thegoodwebguide.
A Brief History of Travel Guides.
Travels Long, Strange Odyssey by Susanne Mantell that appeared in
Publishers Weekly in January, 2006 is a wonderful, concise review of popular
travel guide series, how they came about, and how they have changed over the
years. For details of some of the famous guide book authors, see the
Wikipedia Guide Book topic.
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Other Travel
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| Travel Agencies |
All the major web travel agencies with
links to their home page and Destination Guides with detailed tourist
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World Links |
All the countries and capital
cities of the world with links to travel information for each place. |
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Destinations |
Our Destinations section with links to
sites that have tourist information for 23 regions of the world (e.g.,
Europe, Asia, Africa, South Pacific, etc.) |
| Travel Topics |
For those interested in specific
activities (e.g., adventure travel, hiking, etc.), we have over
200 travel topics to choose from. |
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If you know of other web sites that have good online travel guides,
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