Following is a list of helpful travel websites, travel resources and travel guides to help you plan for your next trip.
| 1,000 Tips 4 Trips | Explore our informative database of over 1000 travel tips from around the world. Search through a collection of helpful information to find what you are looking for - or contribute your own travel tips and hints.
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| AdventureFinder.com | AdventureFinder.com (formerly GORPtravel) is an online travel directory of active vacations, tour outfitters, and adventure lodges, providing travelers with a one-stop shop to research and plan their next adventure. |
| AdventureGuide.com | Quickly access more than 150 of the world's most exciting travel destinations to explore, and adventure travel activities to enjoy. Here's help planning your vacation, links to airport and airline security, and much more. |
| Airline Meals | List of airline meals. |
| AirlineTickets.org | Airlinetickets.org provides airline tips and advice. We found that in the travel industry there isn’t one place where someone can go to find airline reviews that help them make educated decisions. Our reviews are in-dept and cover areas such as: flight delays, popular routes, in-flight entertainment, mileage benefits, and more. Our mission is to help travelers quickly choose an airline based off convenience, low cost, amenities, and a fit. |
| Around The World in 80 Clicks | Photos from around the world. |
| Away.com | The Web's best travel and vacation-planning resource. Great expert reviews and trip ideas for your travel interests and all the flights, hotels, and attraction information to get you there. |
| Bradman's Travel Guides | Bradman's travel guides for savvy travelers. |
| Boots n' All | A one-stop independent travel website. Resources for travel, travel articles and travel deals. |
| Castles Directory | A website reference for castles, palaces and monasteries including: castle tours, medieval architecture, hotels, travel, plans, weddings, castles for sale, souvenirs, books, directory, site of the week, and history of castles. |
| Centers for Disease Control | The CDC's travel website. A good place to check before you go on a trip. Learn about health information for over 200 travel destinations, information about vaccinations, and how to stay safe while you travel. |
| CheapTickets | Airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information |
| CNNtravel.com | CNN Travel website |
| Concierge.com | A traveler's guide from Conde Nast, publisher of Traveler |
| Dave's Travel Corner | We are a travel content and resource provider. This is a travel community with articles, journals, photographs, message boards, links & much more. Dave began Dave's Travel Corner in 1996 immediately after a life-changing trip to Nepal in which he trekked to near Everest Base Camp. While on the trek he became deathly ill from food poisoning and altitude sickness. When he returned to the States he had a newfound appreciation for life and for travel. |
| Earthcams.com | EarthCam is the recognized leader in providing webcam content, technology, and software. Commencing in 1996, EarthCam began developing the proprietary software, network infrastructure and technical expertise which now allows it to deliver millions of live images from thousands of cameras each day.
From the wireless delivery of images to the Java image viewing applets, EarthCam possesses the unparalleled technical expertise to offer consumers the ability to view, create and share webcam content at anytime and in any location worldwide. |
| Embassy World | Serving the diplomatic community and the online community since 1996, EmbassyWorld is designed to provide a comprehensive list of contact resources for all of the world's diplomatic offices. Our goal is to provide an easy-to-navigate directory that is clearly laid out and fully cross-indexed. Our database is searchable via a bi-lateral search engine to search both host location and hosted embassy from dual query boxes. It is our intention to make finding an embassy easy. |
| FlyerTalk | FlyerTalk is an interactive community that provides up-to-date information on travel-related loyalty reward programs. It's the hub that brings everyone together -- from leisure travelers to mileage junkies -- to converse about programs, get the latest program buzz or discuss how to maximize points or miles. |
| Fodor's | Resources that you'll want to read as well as reference, our guide books and website offer current and discerning shopping, dining, hotel, and culture recommendations, as well as compelling features and articles that convey the essence of each destination. |
| Frixo | Specializes in giving traffic reports for UK motorways. |
| Frommer's | Frommer's provides helpful travel articles written by travel experts and travel discussion forums. |
| Gorp | Comprehensive resource for adventure travel, outdoor sports and gear, national parks, and more. |
| GlobalScavengerHunt.com | The Global Scavenger Hunt, is to literally, take you on A Blind Date With The World™ to sweetly exotic destinations around the world that are truly sacred, unique, and wonderful. We want to create for you an opportunity to interact with people from different cultures with histories. Indeed, The Global Scavenger Hunt is all about your cultural immersion. You will not only have more fun than you thought possible on an around the world travel adventure, but, you will also learn things about the world, and yourself, that you never imagined along the way. |
| Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. |
| IgoUgo.com | IgoUgo is the best place to store and share their trip stories and pictures, building a library of honest opinions, tips, and experiences that you won’t find in any guidebook. To date, our travel community has contributed hundreds of thousands of reviews and photos of everything from cheap eats to luxury hotels in more than 9,000 destinations worldwide. |
| InfoHub | Travel guide organized by specialties. |
| InsideFlyer | Articles and travel resources for frequent travelers and frequent flyers. |
| HipMonk.com | HipMonk.com makes it faster and easier to find the flight you want. Most flight search sites haven't changed in years. They have an intimidating search page and endless pages of flight results. Finding the right flight often takes all afternoon—or all week. |
| Hotels.com | Hotels, vacation rentals, packages |
| Hotwire | Hotwire is a leading discount travel site that offers ridiculously low prices. |
| ITA Software | Geo Search – search by airport code, city, or nearby airport selector, Event Finder – plan your trip with a listing of events and things to do, Interactive Calendar – explore date ranges and find the lowest fares, Real-time Filters – focus on flights that suit your preferences, Color-coded Time Bars – compare flights at a glance |
| Johnny Jet's Travel Portal | Excellent resource for frequent travelers. |
| Kayak.com | Kayak is a travel search engine. Which means we search hundreds of travel sites from all over the world, provide the information to you in an easy-to-use display and send you directly to the source to make your purchase. More than any other travel site, we help you find the perfect flight, hotel, cruise, or rental car. After all, what good are 1000 options when you can't find the flight you want? Once you make your choice, we link to the travel sites to make your purchase. Kayak allows you to choose which site to purchase from– through an online travel agency or consolidator such as Orbitz or Airfare.com. Kayak's search engine can find all kinds of travel products– from flights and hotels to rental cars and cruises. Fare alerts and fare history help travelers stay on top of ever-changing travel prices. |
| Lonely Planet | Online home of the well known Lonely Planet travel books. |
| MIT's World Radio | Radio-Locator id the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet, with links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world. A great resource for finding radio stations while traveling the world. |
| National Geographic | The National Geographic Society has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. It is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation. |
| National Park Service | The National Park Service is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior and is led by a Director nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Responsible for caring for the U.S. National parks. A helpful resource if you're planning a trip to a national park. |
| Notes From The Road | Notes from the Road is Erik Gauger's travel photography blog. |
| Official Travel Guide | Find travel guides and travel information from the official travel and tourism offices of over 1,200 travel destinations worldwide. Research travel information for vacation ideas, and find events, attractions, arts & culture, dining, shopping, museums, travel guides, travel videos, tours and much more for cities throughout the world |
| Outside Magazine | Outside magazine, an active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine dedicated to covering the people, activities, gear, art, and politics of the world outside. |
| Orbitz | Airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information |
| Park Search | L.L.Bean's Park Search puts the world's parks at your fingertips. It's the perfect place to start planning your next adventure, and it's easy to use. Start your search by entering a park name or by choosing a region you want to explore. |
| PlanetRider | collects and rates travel sites |
| Priceline | Lets you name your own price for travel (and mortgages), and see if anyone will bite. |
| Quikbook | Good rates for selected hotels in major destinations |
| Rough Guides | Rough Guides is a leading publisher of travel and reference information, respected for their accurate, up-to-date content and informed contemporary writing. |
| The Currency Converter | allows travelers to create and print a currency converter table for their next trip |
| The World Clock | Times and dates for every city in the world. |
| Time Out | An online guide to what's happening in the most exciting cities in the world. |
| Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory | An online reference guide to official tourist information sources: government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, chambers of commerce, and similar organizations that provide free, accurate, and unbiased travel information to the public. |
| Travel.com | Travel resources. |
| Travel & Leisure | Travel & Leisure magazine's online website. |
| Travel Translator | |
| The Connected Traveler | |
| The TravelZine | |
| Travelzoo | Collects special travel offers from many sites |
| The Weather Channel | |
| Third World Traveler | |
| Trip.com | Free travel search site designed to help travelers like you find the cheapest flights, cheapest hotels, cheapest car rentals, and cheapest vacation packages across all of your favorite travel websites with one easy click. |
| Ulysses Travel Guides | |
| U.S. State Department | |
| Washington Post | |
| Webcam World | |
| What's Going On? | |
| What's On When? | |
| World Art Treasures | |
| World's Biggest Pub Crawl | |
| World Climate | |
| World Hum.com | |
| Worldnews.com | |
| This Is Travel | British travel site |
| Travel+Leisure | from the American Express magazine |
| Travelers' Health | from the Centers from Disease Control gives health information for your destination |
| Travelocity | Airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information |
| Travelweb | Hotel booking from the hotel industry |
| TripAdvisor | TripAdvisor is one of the top travel website designed around traveler feedback. Read traveler reviews of places to visit, specific hotels, restaurants, participate in discussions with other travels, view travel photos and more. |
| U.S. State Department | Check the U.S. State Department website for country background papers, passport and visa information, travel warnings and travel advice before you go on a trip. |
| ViaMichelin | Travel guides, hotel and restaurant ratings, directions from Michelin |
