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Travel Guides
These travel guides, destination sections of travel
sites and travel directories are some of the
most popular ones on the web. But we also include some
others that have interesting travel information as well.
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have hand-selected some of the best travel guides on
the web whether or not they are well-known. We include some of the larger travel agencies that have destination
information even if they only cover popular destinations. We also include
well-known paperback travel guides and link you to where you can buy their
guides at Amazon.com, as well as, linking you to the travel guides own
website if they have one if you prefer to buy directly from them.
Also most printed travel guide series have free, online travel
information for the destinations they cover in their books but without
going into a lot of detail. After all they would like you to buy their
guide books. Remember, printed guides don't require batteries or
access to the Internet to use them. What a wonderful innovation!
Thank you Gutenberg for the invention that allowed for mass-produced, printed pages.
Some Gold Star Sites.
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These are websites we have found
that are especially appealing for their breath of
coverage, user interface, interesting travel attitude or for some other
worthwhile quality. If you are a world traveler, for a special treat, try the
SuperTravelNet.com
website.
This is how you dreamed a world travel
website should be navigated.
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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