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Destinations & Travel Guides
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- About: Travel
Travel planning links from About.com.
- Airliners.net
Includes tons of photos, air history, booking, current news, articles, and much more.
- Broome County Local Resources
Sites with Binghamton and Broome County area information.
- CDC Traveler's Health
From the Centers for Disease Control, discussing all aspects of health and travel.
- Flight Aware
"Live flight tracking and aviation information."
- Getting Through Customs
Information about dealing with different customs and manners when travelling.
- Google Directory: Travel
Tons of travel links, organized by subject.
- International Travel News
Online site of monthly travel magazine " covering budget to luxury travel for both independent adventurers and group tour takers."
- Kayak.com
KayakBuzz
Travel search engine - compare prices of flights, hotels, car rental, and other travel deals. The "Buzz" site includes comparative maps from Google.
- Lifehacker: Travel
Travel tips, driving, guests, air travel, more.
- MetroPlanet (Mass Transit Systems)
Maps and information on "subways, metros, undergrounds and other mass transit systems around the world."
- Orbitz.com
Shop online for tickets, rentals, packages, and deals.
- SeatGuru
Find the best seats on the flight you are taking.
- SideStep.com
Compare prices for airline flights, hotels, and cars, or view featured special deals from various companies.
- Subway Maps
Browse printable subway maps from all over the world.
- Travel Warnings & Consular Info. Sheets
From the U.S. State Department.
- Travelocity
Online travel planning help.
- U.S. Department of State: New Requirements for Travelers
New rules which take effect January 1, 2008, affecting travel to Canada, Mexico, the Carribbean, Bermuda, and Panama.
- Yahoo! Directory: Recreation: Travel
Yahoo! 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.
See also:
Countries
- 1uptravel.com
United States and world destinations.
- 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!"
- Chamber of Commerce.com
Find Chambers of Commerce and official Tourism information from around the world.
- 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.
- Fodors.com
Tips, information, and guides for the traveller.
- 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."
- 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 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.
- 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. "
- 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! 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."
Last updated March 10, 2008
