Travel

TRIPSPOT Quick connection to a vast number of travel-related sites; a good place to start your research

GUIDES

Most of these websites are extensions of established travel guide publishers, and function as full-service sites with direct links to online booking partners. Many now have travelers' forums as well, providing access to the "average" traveler's experience of a variety of destinations.

Fodors.com http://www.fodors.com/
Fodors.com adds to the content of its well-known guidebooks "with up-to-the-minute travel advice… user ratings of sites, restaurants and hotels,… and traveler forums"

Frommer's
http://www.frommers.com/
Frommer's supplements its 300 guidebooks with online guidance to travel destinations, sorted by activity and by lifestyle

Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Started in the United Kingdom, the Lonely Planet provides an iconoclastic but in-depth perspective on traveling. Its Thorn Tree travelers' forum, an online bulletin board, posts 5000 emails a day.

Rough Guide
http://travel.roughguides.com/default.html
This site makes available online all the editorial content of the 200+ ROUGH GUIDE travel books; launched by a UK student but now offers advice for travelers at all income levels.

Shaw Guides
http://www.shawguides.com/
A unique and comprehensive directory of "learning vacations": categories include cultural travel, language vacations, cooking and wine schools,; photography, film and writing workshops; golf, tennis and "high-performance" sports programs.

Trip Advisor
http://www.tripadvisor.com/
This site helps you evaluate hotels, resorts and vacation packages by providing access to millions of non-professional travelers' reviews.

TRAVEL JOURNALISM

New York Times "Travel"
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/travel/index.html
articles archived since 1996, searchable by destination, interest or activity

Tripspots: directory of major newspaper travel sections
http://www.tripspot.com/newspapers.htm

ON LINE BOOKING

Expedia
Orbitz
Travelocity

OFFICIAL INFORMATION RELATED TO FOREIGN TRAVEL

U. S. Centers for Disease Control : Traveler's Health
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/destinat.htm
up-to-the-minute information on health concerns related to your travel
destination

Oanda , the Currency Site
http://www.oanda.com/convert/cheatsheet
The "Currency Cheat Sheet" can be tailored to the currency of your destination and printed for quick reference.