Travel Guides

Fodors http://www.fodors.com
Fodors.com supplements content from its print guidebooks with advice from travel experts, discussion areas, links, numerous planning tools, and booking capability.

The Insiders Guides http://www.insiders.com
Each guide to more than 70 cities and regional destinations in the United States and Bermuda is written with a local perspective and gives advice on how to find a hotel and restaurant.

International Travel News http://www.intltravelnews.com
Travel tips, recommendations, and reviews from the "average traveler."

Lonely Planet Online http://www.lonelyplanet.com
Lonely Planet publishes guidebooks for independent travelers on every continent with destination and travel literature, restaurant guides, etc.

National Geographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/index.html
Online counterpart to National Geographic guidebooks where you find information on travel destinations, maps, adventure travel, and travel tools such as metric and currency converter, language translator, and world time.

Rick Steves' Europe http://www.ricksteves.com
Travel tips and links, guided tours and travel tools from Rick Steves from public television.

Rough Guides http://www.roughguides.com
Full online text of their printed guidebooks.

Time Out Guides http://www.timeout.com
World wide city guides providing information on restaurants, shopping, and event tickets.

Travel Channel http://www.travel.discovery.com
Travel news from the online companion to the television travel channel

Travelocity.com http://www.travelocity.com
Provides online reservation capabilities for air, car, hotel, and vacation reservations along with destination and other travel information.

Travel Tools

AAA.com http://www.aaa.com
Automobile Club of America. Provides travel planning, airline tickets, hotel room reservations, rental cars, package vacations, cruises, and travel publications. Offers online driving directions, automobile news, and gas prices. Many services are available only to AAA members.

50 States.com http://50states.com
Provides information on each state in the United States including a newspaper directory, college and university directory, and news headlines.

Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.net/ucc
Allows interactive foreign currency exchange rate calculations. Supports over 180 currencies.

U.S. Department of State Travel and Living Abroad http://www.state.gov/travel.cfm
Provides a variety of information on traveling abroad including information on emergency services for U.S. citizens, travel warnings, and public announcements along with tips on bringing food, plants, and animals into the United States.

Word2Word Free Online Language Courses http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
Provides an index of web sites that contain lessons to help you learn one language from another.

Special Travel Needs

Business Travel

Biztravel.com http://www.biztravel.com
Online travel agency for business travel. Recommends travel itineraries to match states preferences such as lowest price and preferred carrier.

Business Traveler Online http://www.btonline.com
Online counterpart to Business Traveler.

Webflyer http://www.webflyer.com
Frequent flyer awards information.

Family Travel

Family.com http://family.go.com/Travel
Use vacation finder for great destination ideas, discussion forums, car trip, plane trip essentials and travel checklists geared towards families.

Travel with Kids http://travelwithkids.com
Find family travel ideas and deals along with family travel tips and vacations with teens.

Women Travelers

Journeywoman http://www.journeywoman.com
Includes destinations, travel tips, travel tales much of which are aimed at women travelling alone.

Adventure Womenhttp://www.adventurewomen.com
Adventure travel company that offers vacations for "active" women over age 30.

Senior Travelers

Elderhostel http://www.elderhostel.org
Elderhostel, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides educational adventures for adults who are 55 and older.

Eldertreks http://www.eldertreks.com
Adventure travel company that offers vacations to adults who are 50 and over.

Disabled Travelers

Access-Able Travel Source http://www.access-able.com
Provides travel information and resources for disabled travelers through databases and web pages. Also includes a "Travelin' Talk" network with member directory to help travelers plan trips with the insight of someone who lives in the area.

Accessible Journeys http://www.disabilitytravel.com
Great web sites for finding information about group and individual travel packages for people with disabilities. Also includes links to discussion forums and a newsletter.

Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality (SATH)
http://www.sath.org
Good factual information about traveling for people with disabilities.

Gay and Lesbian Travel

Gay Travel http://www.gaytravel.com
Destination guides, trip planning tips and a discussion forum where you can talk about your vacation or ask other travelers for advice.

Freedom travel http://www.freedomuk.com/pages/travel.asp
Useful information on gay and lesbian travel throughout the world. Includes information on accommodations, places of interest and history.

Travel with Pets

Travel with Pets http://www.petswelcome.com
Pet travel resource that lists over 25,000 hotels, B&Bs, ski resorts, campgrounds, and beaches that are "pet friendly".

Special Interest Travel

Great Outdoor Recreation Pages http://www.gorp.com
GORP provides information on outdoor recreation and adventure travel. The web site offers "encyclopedic content" on unique and exotic international destinations to more accessible outdoor experiences in the United States. Includes a travel service, discussion forum, and outdoor clothing and gear store.

Green Travel http://www.green-travel.com
Environmentally sensitive and friendly international travel guides and resources. Includes a world guide to vegetarianism and women's travel resources on the web.

National Parks Service http://www.nps.gov
Supported by the National Park Service, Park Net provides information on national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, historical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails, and the White House. Provides access to make reservations for camping and lodging in the National Parks.

Roadside America.com http://roadsideamerica.com
Online guide to over 8000 offbeat tourist attractions. Provides tips and tourism news along with "Feed the Tree", a place for readers to submit observations and tips from their own travels.

Specialty Travel Index http://www.spectrav.com
Source for international adventure and special-interest vacations. Features tour and contact information for over 500 adventure tour operators.

Yahoo! Parks http://travel.yahoo.com/p/parks/
National, state, and local park directory.

Discount Travel

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Online http://www.frommers.com
Provides commentary and vacation ideas and recommendations for the budget-conscious traveler. Some of the many features include information for over 1600 international destinations, interactive travel message boards, road trip, budget Europe, tropical vacations, and honeymoon sections, and information for singles and senior travelers. Allows you to book air fares, rail travel, cruises, car rentals, and lodgings.

Hotel Discounts http://www.hoteldiscount.com
Source on discounts for worldwide accommodations. Allows users to compare price, quality, location, amenities and availability of hotel rooms. Allows you to book directly via the web site and offers savings of up to 65% off regular hotel rates and specializes in providing accommodations when cities are sold out.

Last Minute Travel.com http://www.lastminutetravel.com
Provides information on last minute travel and entertainment opportunities. Find airline tickets, accommodations, rental cars, vacation packages, and event tickets.

Priceline http://www.priceline.com
Bid on the price of airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars,flights, etc.

Accommodations

Hostelling http://www.hostels.com
Directory to youth hostels around the world. Provides information about hostels and budget travel.

HotelTravel.com http://www.hotelstravel.com
Links to over 100,000 hotels worldwide. Provides hotel bargains, travel guides and tips, a currency converter, and special promotions.

Places to Stay http://www.placestostay.com
Make reservations online; includes Bed and Breakfast directory, hotels, inns, and resorts around the world.. Search by price range, services and amenities. Includes color photos and descriptions of properties.

Roomsaver http://www.roomsaver.com
Provides online hotel coupons for over 5400 hotels. Printed guides, including a "Green Guide" which provides discounts, gives information on restaurants, service stations, rest areas, and welcome centers.

Travelweb http://www.travelweb.com
Online reservations at most major hotel chains worldwide by searching for a city, amenity, name, hotel type, and price range. Its "Click it Weekends" provides special promotions from some hotels. Also provides online flight reservations.

Restaurants

DineSite.com http://www.dinesite.com
Dining guide and food resource that details and reviews over 2000 restaurants in and around 16 major US cities.

Dine.com http://www.dine.com
Database of more 150,000 restaurants with more than 35,000 restaurant reviews. Users can search by name, type, city, or zip or browse by state and city.

Diner City http://www.dinercity.com
Provides diner reviews and a diner directory that lists the name, address, date of manufacture, and manufacturer's name for each diner.

Restaurant Row http://www.restaurantrow.com
Dining resource that lists over 110,000 restaurants in 7000 cities in 47 countries. Offers ratings, customer reviews, menus, photos, maps, and driving directions.

Road Food.com http://www.roadfood.com
Roadfood recommendations where you can search by state and food type for the "best informal meals in America's colorful back-roads cafes and town diners."

VegEats! - http://www.vegeats.com/
Searchable site that provides directories linking to sites with information on more than 2,000 vegetarian/vegan restaurants worldwide and 4,500 recipes.

Flight Information/Airlines

Airport Listings http://www.quickaid.com
Offers terminal maps for major cities.

Cheap Airlines.com http://www.cheapairlines.com
Find rates not only on flights, but cars, hotels, and cruises. Also has some helpful travel tools such as travel insurance, travel alerts, flight status, and seat maps.

Cheap Tickets.com http://www.cheaptickets.com
Provides discount airfares, rental cars, hotel accommodations, and cruises. Allows you to compare airline fares and book flights online.

Flight Arrivals.com http://www.flightarrivals.com
Offers real time arrival, departure, and delay information for commercial airline flights operating to, from, and within the United States. Allows you different search options to find flight information without knowing the flight number.

TravelFinder.com http://www.travelfinder.com/airlines.htm
Find worldwide airline phone numbers and airline frequent flyer phone numbers,

Trip.com http://flight.thetrip.com
Allows you to track airborne flights with real-time "FlightTracker". Provides information on hotel deals and travel news.

Specific Airlines

American Airlines http://www.aa.com

Continental http://www.continental.com

Jet Blue http://www.jetblue.com

Northwest http://www.nwa.com

Southwest http://www.southwest.com

United http://www.ual.com

U.S. Airways http://www.usairways.com

Car Rentals

Alamo http://www.goalamo.com

Avis http://www.avis.com

Budget http://www.budgetrentacar.com

Hertz http://www.hertz.com

Directions

MapBlast! http://www.mapblast.com
Find hotels, food, gas stations, shopping, etc. near your destination. Driving directions allows you to get a diagram labeling all relevant roads.

MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com
Free, interactive street atlas of the continental United States provides mileage, door-to-door or city-to-city, and street maps with driving directions. Also provides trip planning information that includes city information, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and weather.

Maps On Us http://www.mapsonus.com
Provides detailed maps and driving directions.

How Far Is It http://www.indo.com/distance/
Uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places. It then calculates the distance between them and provides a map showing the two places.

Road Conditions

Federal Highway Administration http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo
Provides traffic and road closure information for the United States. Includes construction and weather related information along with a link to all state Departments of Transportation.

RWA Direct http://rwa.metronetworks.com/rwa/rwdirect.htm
Provides traffic, weather, and road conditions in the United States.

Train Travel

Train Schedules Worldwide http://www.vais.net/~traveltime/train.html
Provides information on train and subway schedules.

Passports and Visas

US State Department's Passport Services http://travel.state.gov/passport_services.html
Provides general information on passports including where to apply for a passport, fees for U.S. passports, and how to get a passport in a hurry.

U.S. State Department's Visa Services http://travel.state.gov/visa_services.html
Provides information on Visa services including an visitor visa application and employment visas.

The Embassy Web http://www.embpage.org
Listings of diplomatic offices worldwide.

Governments on the Web http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/
Alphabetical listing of links for every country in the world that maintains consulates.

Health and Safety Requirements

CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Detailed files on every country in the world including background information and reference maps.

CDC Travelers' Health http://www.cdc.gov/travel
Provides health information on specific destinations, vaccination requirements, disease outbreaks, information for travelers with special needs, and more. Includes the latest information on health safety and alerts.

Flying Healthy http://www.flyana.com
Advice from a former international flight attendant and current author alerting travelers to some health dangers of air travel.

International Health Insurance.com http://www.intlhealthinsurance.com
Provides information on how to identify, evaluate, and purchase international health insurance.

travelhealth.com http://www.travelhealth.com
Provides travelers with local health care providers, immunization recommendations, and information where risks and diseases exist and other health and safety information worldwide.

Travel Health Online http://www.tripprep.com
Provides immunization recommendations, facts about travel vaccines, how illnesses are transmitted and prevented, preparing for emergencies and warnings about crime in 220 countries.

US Customs Services http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/travel/travel.html
An overview of Customs regulations and procedures that apply to travelers entering or exiting the United States.

U.S. State Department http://travel.state.gov
Provides government reports on every country and travel warnings for countries around the world. Includes lists of doctors and hospitals abroad and services for Americans abroad.

Customs and Culture

Web of Culture http://www.webofculture.com/worldsmart/subscribe.asp
Addresses the proper "body etiquette" and gestures for different nations. You must register to use this site.

Travel Complaints

Airline Complaints http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov
Information on how complaints are handled by the Aviation Consumer Protection Division.

ASTAnet: Government Affiars: Passenger Rights http://www.astanet.com/about/govaffairs/rights.asp
Information about the "Air Travelers' Bill of Rights" and pending travel legislation sponsored by the American Society of Travel Agents.

NAUPA: Recovering Unclaimed Property http://www.unclaimed.org
The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators assists you in your efforts to find unclaimed property that may belong to you or your relatives.

Weather

Accuweather http://www.accuweather.com

Weather Channel http://www.weather.com

USA Today Weather http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm

Search Tools

Excite http://travel.excite.com
Web portal that offers travel information on destinations, flights, rental cars, and lodging.

Invisible Web Travel http://www.invisibleweb.com
A search and browsing tool that helps you find databases on accommodations, cruises, customs and visa information, destinations, and travel agents.

Trip Spot http://www.tripspot.com
Online travel resource that organizes such features as travel news, maps, weather forecasts, deal finders, reservation services, travel auctions, state and international tourism information and more into easy to browse categories.

Yahoo! Travel http://travel.yahoo.com
Make airline, car, hotel, vacation, and cruise reservations. Also includes links to family travel

TOP...