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Travel Materials

Destination Guides and Maps

  • CityClicker CityClicker is a comprehensive city guide that helps people find information about their cities and hundreds of others.
  • CitySearch Map The best overall city guides are from CitySearch, which is backed by Intel,AT&T Ventures, and USA Networks (whose chairman, Barry Diller, is aninvestor in this magazine). This is probably because in each of the ninecities it serves, CitySearch partners with leading newspapers, includingthe Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Dallas Morning News. The restaurant and movie databases are comprehensive and easy to use, as is the daily event finder.
  • Delorme's Cybermaps 
  • Digital City 
  • Information USA Information USA provides listings and LINKS to ALL 50 United States Of America, together with, United States Travel and Tourism Offices, (i.e. Chamber of Commerce offices, Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Regional Tourism Offices, etc.). Information USA's Travel and Vacation database also provides you with other useful travel and vacation information, such as, accommodations (hotels, motels, B&B's, camping and more), attractions, casinos, amusement parks, etc.
  • Infoseek Map Search 
  • Lycos RoadMaps 
  • MapQuest! 
  • Maps on Us: A Map, Route and Yellow Pages Service 
  • Microsoft TerraServer "TerraServer uses Microsoft SQL ServerTM 7.0 Enterprise Edition to host one of the world's largest online databases. It's a huge repository of aerial photographs and satellite images taken from miles overhead that you can view and, if you want, purchase. TerraServer, hosted on Digital AlphaServer from Compaq and StorageWorks hardware, has more data than any database on the InternetÑenough data, in fact, that if printed on paper, it would comprise about 2,000 volumes, with each volume containing 500 pages."
  • Oddens' Bookmarks A collection of map links.
  • Take a Free Trip on AutoPilot 
  • United States US online index of States, Cities, Towns, Weather and resources for travel and entertainment.
  • University of Iowa CGRER: Maps and References 
  • USA CityLink Project "The USA CityLink Project is a city's interface to the world. It is the Internet's most comprehensive listing of U.S. States and Cities offering information on travel, tourism and relocation."
  • Virtual Voyages Destination Travel Directory 
  • wcities.com Wcities.com is a series of guides covering international citiesvisiting, local, international, sightseeing, business, kids, children,city guides, hotels, bars, cafes clubs, restaurants, news, weatherand more
  • WebCrawler Maps 
  • Xpeditions Xpeditions is a web site that brings rich geography content to teachers, parents and students.
  • Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions 

General Guides for Travel

  • Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Online Arthur Frommer, the budget-travel master, searches out the best traveldeals available online and off and summarizes them on his website, which is a treasure trove of information for serious travelers.
  • CNN Travel Guide 
  • Epicurious Travel With material from CondZ Nast Traveler magazine and original contentprepared by the site's own staff, this is a great resource for vacationplanning. Don't miss the "Deal of the Week," which picks one specialvacation package and explains why it can't be beat.
  • Fodors 
  • Global Travel Guide in the World Wide Web!, The 
  • Let's Go 
  • Preview Travel This all-purpose site, run by an independent company that has producedtravel segments for TV since 1985, lets travelers book a flight, car, hotelroom, or complete vacation package via the Web, but is distinguished fromits competitors for offering Fodor's Gold Guides to 86 cities.
  • Rand McNally Online 
  • Rough Guide to Travel This site, like others created by guidebook publishers, includesinformation that the all-purpose websites sometimes omit, such as hotel and restaurant reviews. Rough Guides also provides a "Journal" for travelers to swap information or give their own updates on destinations.
  • Travel & Leisure In addition to content from the magazine, this site features Hot Deals!, ane-mail newsletter that regularly features a half-dozen vacation bargains.
  • Travelocity 
  • Trip.com, The "Everything for the traveller except the stress."
  • Virtual Tourist 
  • World Sites Atlas A collection of general and tourist information, hotels, maps, links, and photos for hundreds of places of interest in Europe and North America.
  • World Travel Guide Online 

Lodging and Foods

  • All the hotels on the Web 
  • Bed and Breakfast Channel With vacation season upon us, one of the sites that may help with your lodging plans is the Bed and Breakfast Channel. It lists information on over 20,000 bed and breakfasts and inns throughout the world in a well organized, easily navigated site. The variety of useful information includes pictures and maps, rates, classifieds, and specials. The Bed and Breakfast Channel content can also be found on other travel cornucopia such as Microsoft Expedia, Travelocity, and Planet Direct, so at least you know someone else likes it, too.
  • Diner's Grapevine, The 
  • Epicurious Restaurant Guide 
  • Greek Hotels Guide of Greek Hotels & Tour Operators & Lodgings in Greece.
  • innformation.com A bed and breakfast directory.
  • Inns & Lodges On-line 
  • Restaurant Report On-line 
  • Richards Restaurant Ranking 
  • Wine and Dine E-zine 
  • Zagat Restaurant Guide  For many years, Zagat has been famous for the quality of its restaurantreviews compiled from the votes of thousands of ordinary patrons. Zagat has opened a Web site that brings the whole operation online. The siterequires registration, which gets you access to their review database and a chance to vote for your own favorite restaurants. A sophisticated search facility, of course, allows you to find a place to eat according to all sorts of food, location, and service criteria. We found it especially useful for finding places to eat while on the road. Worth bookmarking.

Other Travel Resources

Transportation and Hotel Reservation

Travel Resources at Major Web Directories