Columbus Guides
Columbus Guides provides a World Travel Guide, Airport Guide, City Guide, and World Events and Attraction Guide in several languages. Other tools includes airport information, weather reports, tourist attractions and cruise reviews.Jim Brunner's Getting Away
This site bills itself as "a source for world-wide travel tips and information including passport information, airfare, accommodations, car rental, tours, cruises, and expert destination information." It also offers travel discounts and deals.Official Travel Guide
The official travel portal of the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus.Site59
Site59 works with travel providers to locate unsold airline seats, hotel rooms and rental cars--assembling them into real-time, "guaranteed available when you see them" packages.TravelGuideS.com
Lanier Publishing's Travel Guide directory of bed and breakfast lodgings worldwide, travel deals and budget accommodations.TripAdvisor: Travel and Vacation Planning
Billed as a combination search engine and directory for travel-related content, TripAdvisor culls, ranks and organizes destination information from dozens of online guidebooks (including Frommer's and Fodors), newspapers and magazines (from U.S. News to GreatEscapes.com) and Internet bulletin boards. Covers North America, Europe and the Caribbean.
Bureau of Consular Affairs, U. S. State Department
This is the official source for passport information for American citizens. It offers information on how to apply for, how to renew, and how to replace lost or stolen passports. Additional helpful information ranges from travel warnings and visa requirements to directions on how to get copies of your birth certificate.
Foreign Currency Exchange Table
Provided by Yahoo, this popular search directory lists up-to-the-minute exchange rates for major currency of the world. Another useful feature of the site is the history of a currency's rate of exchange.
The Rosetta Stone
With various useful phrases in 74 languages, the site offers basic words and numbers and well as phrases for shopping, dining, travel, directions, places, and time and dates. The site also provides links to other online sources such as alphabets, pronunciations, and maps.
MapQuest
Maps, Driving directions, road trip planner, live traffic reports, yellow pages, and city guides.mapblast.com
An excellent site for maps and driving directions for both U. S. and international locationsindo.com
At this site one can determine distances between principal world cities (as the crow flies) as well as the latitudes and longitudes of various places.
yahoo.com
Allows online reservations for air travel. Selections can be made by destination, by activity, and by lifestyle. One may also consult this site for the times of specific flights.
hostels.com
Describes international youth hostels, giving their locations and the cost of lodging.Hostelworld
Hostelworld.com offers reservations at international youth hostels, independent hostels, backpacker hostels and budget hotels.
Michael Ingram
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