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Web Portals

Portals are super sites that have gone beyond just letting you search for something. They include directories on their home pages to reduce the time it takes to find what you want, as well as, powerful search engines to search either their website or the web. We list major portals that include travel or languages as a directory and some other portals that are so popular we felt we needed to include them for completeness. Wikipedia has a nice article about web portals.

If a portal has a directory or category for travel or language, we link you directly to it.

The Other Travel Portals
Besides major travel agency and travel guide websites, there are some other sites with very comprehensive travel information on a variety of topics. We list them here.
Google Portals Search	Yahoo Portals Search	Wikitravel	JohnnyJet	Travel Library	The Express Ticket Portal	Travel Science

Also try our Search Engine page. Yahoo! has a great list of Portals. And so does Ageof

Popular Portals	Direct Section Link		Notes
About.com	Travel	Languages	An excellent starting point for online travel information. They have an easy-to-navigate format. Includes about 70 travel and recreation guides organized by categories. They also have world region and specific country guides. Scroll down to the section that has Popular Related Sites for direct language and cultural links.
Altavista	none	none	Altavista is now owned by Yahoo!.
AOL.com	Travel	none	You don't have to be an AOL subscriber to visit and use this site.
AT&T WorldNet® Service	Travel	none	Their travel section uses Expedia for some of the travel information.
CNet.com	none	none	An excellent portal for the latest in computer and technology information including travel-related hardware and software reviews. It also has the latest news on what's happening with the Internet.
Disney Company	Travel	none	Thank you Walt for creating a Magic Kingdom for us here on Earth.
Dmoz.org	Travel	Languages	This is the Open Directory Project portal.
Earthlink	none	none	A national Portal.
Excite Network	Travel	none	An excellent, clean navigation layout.
GeoCities	Travel	none	Geocities is part of Yahoo! Travel will take you to Yahoo! Travel.
Google.com	Travel	Languages	Excellent portal and search engine. They have useful comments about each site when they give you search results. Nice, clean user-friendly interface.
Infospace (not a portal)	none	none	They offer WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, WebFetch, Zoo and Dogpile search capabilities.
Infoseek	none	none	Infoseek has an alliance with The Disney Company and provides them with the Go Network. Infoseek is not available as a U.S. portal. However, Infoseek is available to you if you live in Japan. The Japan Infoseek website is in Japanese.
Lycos	none	none
Microsoft	none	none	We listed this portal because it is an important one even though it does not have any travel or language categories.
MSN	Travel	none	Microsoft Network. You don't have to be an MSN subscriber to visit and use this site.
MSNBC.MSN.com	Travel	none	A combined NBC and MSN joint venture.
Netscape	Travel	none
Wikipedia	Travel	Language	Wikipedia is an open project building a wonderful, free encyclopedia using volunteers. It's quality rivals that of commercial websites. Site content is in many different language versions. We take you to the English versions of their Travel and Language portals.
Wikitravel	Travel	Phrasebooks	Wikitravel is an open project building a wonderful, free travel website using volunteers. It's quality rivals that of commercial websites. Site content is in many different language versions. We take you to the English versions of their Travel and Language portals.
Yahoo! Directory	Travel	Languages	They have an excellent travel and human languages directory.