See also: World Countries and Cultures

• 1uptravel.com
  United States and world destinations.
• About: Travel
  Travel planning links from About.com.
• Airline fees
  From USA Today, a chart showing "what you'll pay to check a bag, change your ticket, more". September 2010.
• Airliners.net
  Includes tons of photos, air history, booking, current news, articles, and much more.
• AOL Travel Guides
  "Find up-to-date travel guides, reviews and pictures on hundreds of cities and thousands of activities worldwide. The world is yours with AOL Travel guides!"
• Broome County Local Resources
  Sites with Binghamton and Broome County area information.
• Budget Travel
  "Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine is published monthly except for combined issues in December/January and July/August by Newsweek Budget Travel. BudgetTravel.com is the website for Budget Travel magazine."
• CDC: Traveler's Health
  From the Centers for Disease Control, discussing all aspects of health and travel.
• Chamber of Commerce.com Business Directory
  Find Chambers of Commerce and official Tourism information from around the world.
• Clocks and Time Zones
      Greenwich Mean Time -- The World Clock / WC: Time Zone Converter -- World Time Server -- WorldTimeZone.net
• Deals and Pricing
      Bing - Travel -- FareCompare -- Kayak.com -- KayakBuzz -- Orbitz.com -- Travelocity -- Yahoo! Travel
• Domestic Airline Fee Chart
  "A handy comparison list of U.S. domestic airline fees."
• EuroCheapo
  "We have scoured Europe's most popular cities to find hotels that are both welcoming and wallet-friendly." Also looks at cheap rail, bus, and rental car options.
• Finding Dulcinea: Travel
  "This Guide provides top-notch destination information, expert reviews, and access to competitively priced vacation packages next to convenient tools for booking all phases of your trip."
• Flight Tracking
      Flight Aware -- FlightStats -- FlyteComm
• Fodors.com
  Tips, information, and guides for the traveller.
• Forecasts and Weather
      My Forecast -- International Weather -- National Weather Service -- Weather Underground -- World Weather -- Yahoo! Weather
• Getting Through Customs
  Information about dealing with different customs and manners when travelling.
• International Travel News
  Online site of monthly travel magazine " covering budget to luxury travel for both independent adventurers and group tour takers."
• Lifehacker: Travel
  Travel tips, driving, guests, air travel, more.
• Locals Eats
  "LocalEats is your guide to the best local restaurants worldwide. ... We do the research for you, gathering the opinions of critics and local bloggers, trusted friends, and site visitors."
• MetroPlanet (Mass Transit Systems)
  Maps and information on "subways, metros, undergrounds and other mass transit systems around the world."
• Money and Currency
      Crrncy.com -- Universal Currency Converter -- World Exchange Rates -- Yahoo!
• New York Times: Travel Topics
  "Browse the list ... to find topic pages about places. Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published about the location on NYTimes.com."
• One Bag
  Tips on packing lightly but efficiently.
• Open Directory: Travel
  Tons of travel links, organized by subject.
• Packwhiz
  Online packing list generator.
• Plnnr
  "Plnnr automatically generates your free personalized ready-to-use itinerary in split seconds. Including scheduled daily routes, navigating directions, hotel price comparison, attractions info."
• The Practical Nomad
  Advice blog from an experienced traveller and author of travel books. Further FAQs and info are available on his main website.
• Roadside America
  "Your Online Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions."
• Sacred Destinations
  "A catalogue and travel guide to more than 1,500 (and counting!) sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, historical religious sites and religious buildings and artifacts around the world."
• SeatGuru
  Find the best seats on the flight you are taking.
• SkyScanner
  "A flight search engine which can help you find flights from multiple airline sites." With price information and a handy visual Cheap Flights Map.
• SmartMoney: Travel & Vacations
  From the folks at SmartMoney magazine.
• Subway Maps
  Browse printable subway maps from all over the world.
• Time Out: the World's Living Guide
  Guides to 34 major cities worldwide.
• Travel Channel
  Information about travel and destinations from Discovery's Travel Channel, as well as info about their tv shows.
• Travel Etiquette
  "TravelEtiquette contains over 60 articles written by our experts who continually update and add new content." Short articles about local customs in destinations all around the world.
• Travel Information.com
  Free travel brouchures, guides, and maps for destinations in North America.
• Travel.org
  Directory of information, agents, lodgings, airlines, and places around the world.
• Travel Warnings & Consular Info. Sheets
  From the U.S. State Department.
• Tipping Etiquette Around the World
  An infographic summarizing tipping customs around the world, with additional information on tipping in the U.S.
• TripAdvisor
  "TripAdvisor scours the web to find unbiased articles, guidebook reviews and user comments on cities, hotels and activities in a given destination."
• TripCart
  "TripCart, the premiere online travel guide, brings together all the resources you need to carefully plan your next adventure. "
• TripIt
  TripIt is a personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans. TripIt is free and makes it easy to... Quickly organize all your travel plans ... Automatically get itineraries with all your plans..." and more. Works from web browser or mobile.
• TripWolf
  "tripwolf is a social travel guide for the discerning traveler that combines professional editorial travel tips with traveler generated content..."
• U.S. Department of State: Travel
  Information concerning domestic and international travel both for U.S. citizens and for those visiting. Includes travel advice, warnings, policies, passport rules, and related info.
• USA.gov: International Travel
  "Official information and services from the U.S. government."
• Wikitravel
  "Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 8,511 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe."
• World Citizen's Guide
  Annotated links "put together by students for students to use when going abroad" in a nice clean interface.
• World Heritage Center
  A division of UNESCO devoted to highlighting and preserving cultural heritage sites around the world.
• World Monuments Fund
  Nonprofit organization "dedicated to the preservation of historic art and architecture worldwide...". Includes list of their choice of the top 100 endangered monuments worldwide.
• Yahoo! Directory: Recreation: Travel
  Yahoo! Travel is more directly focused on finding tickets, hotels, travel deals, and so on. Yahoo! Directory... Travel has links about many other aspects of travelling, such as currency exchange, travel for seniors, maps, travel tips, and much more.
• Yahoo! Local
  "Yahoo! Local helps you find the things you need in your neighborhood and beyond. It gives you the names and numbers of local services and businesses but it also shows you information related to them."

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