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Civil War Traveler
For the Civil War buff...
Maritime Heritage Program: Lighthouses to Visit
Enjoy a virtual tour of lighthouses.
Airtreks Helps you plan complicated multi-leg itineraries without the hassle and expense of one-off tickets.
American Express Travel
Utilize American Express Travel online booking system, find vacation
specials, weather forecasts, travel tips, and more.
Biztravel.com
Best travel hub and the best place to book a business trip.
Cheap Tickets Online
"Cheap tickets online offers a lot of help for cheap ticket buyers.
They even feature a section that allows you to 'practice shopping.' Cool."
Cruise Critic
Research almost anything about 60 different cruise lines and gather advice
on everything ship related.
Discount Hotels
"Helpful Resource for finding cheap hotels on the internet."
Home and Abroad
Plan a trip to one of more than 90 destinations from start to finish.
Map Blast
Find directions to any address in the world.
Last Minute Travel
A site for thousands of spur-of-the-moment deals.
Microsoft Expedia
Book your flights, car rentals and hotels. Hunt for the best fares with
Fare Tracker, an e-mail service that sends would-be fliers the lowest
published fares.
Online Vacation Mall
Best place to book a vacation package.
Priceline
Name your price for car rentals, vacations, hotels.
Schmap.com
Down-lodable maps and guides for 200 cities in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The site also plots
popular tourist spots, provides history and service info, and even suggests walking routes.
Seat Guru
Preview seat maps, including where to find the power outlets as well as that extra inch of leg room, for 39 different airlines.
Travelocity
A most popular internet site which pulls everything together: flight reservations,
travel guides, currency converters, and anything else travelers might need.
Cheap Tickets.com
"Cheap Tickets.com aims to be the number one choice of business travelers worldwide."
Absolutely Florida
A comprehensive travel web site for the sunshine state. Information on: lodging, air
and car travel, attractions, maps, beaches, tours and much more.
I Love New York
Official state tourism promotion site and homepage.
Official Travel Info.com
This site, provided by the International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, links you to over a thousand, official
city, state, and country tourist boards and their websites.
Long Island-World Web Travel Guide
A good site to help you plan a successful visit to Long Island.
State and Regional Visitors Bureaus in the U.S.
A database of more than 500 state and local visitor bureaus, that promote
tourism in their area.
USA Citylink Project
Comprehensive listing of www pages featuring U.S. states and cities,
offering information on travel, tourism and location.
United States Chamber of Commerce
The latest local and state information on travel, events, and resources.
Festivals
Details on 20,000 festivals worldwide. Search categories include arts,
children, culture, fairs, sports, and a calendar.
Go-Global
Lists weather, time zones, distances, current month's holidays, phone dialing codes
and power voltages.
Jennifer's Language Page
At this site you can learn to say a number of words and phrases in several hundred languages. Phrases include,
"Hello," "goodbye," "thank you," "how are you," "what is your name?," and "my name is..."
World Public Holidays Database
Amtrak's Station on the World Wide Web
Everything you need to know about routes, schedules, and travel tips.
Disney's Web Site
Mickey here we come!
800 Airline Numbers
Search the alphabetical lists for numbers of carriers worldwide. Many
airlines list up to four numbers.
Elderhostel
A worldwide educational adventure for older adults looking for something
different.
How Far Is It?
Enter any 2 cities and find the distance between them (as the crow flies). You can
look by zip code, city, or latitude and longitude.
KASBAH: The Travel Search Engine
Best place to start your travel research.
KidsCamps Directory
A directory of kids camps online.
Mapquest
Find instant driving directions from point A to point B by using the
database of over 150,000 locations.
National Weather Service
This popular site offers local and regional temperature, humidity and
"comfort index" information for locations across America.
Online Travel
Rail and air schedules, travel packages, Eurorail pass rates, channel
crossing schedules, and much more.
Senior Discounts.com
A new free site which lists discounts available to those age 50 and over. Categories include airlines, hotels, restaurants, auto services, national parks, medical services, public transportation, entertainment and recreation.
Ski-Guide
"Snow, lodging and dining, transportation and events at 570 ski areas in the United
States and Canada. Includes most of the famous names, as well as Hound Ears Club, N.C.:
Adventure Mountain Lions, Mich., and Lynx Creek, N.H."
State Department
Voluminous information: travel warnings, addresses of embassy and consulate web
sites, a host of telephone numbers. Large passport section with downloadable
applications of the addresses of the 3,609 U.S. places where you can get a passport.
Transportation Security Administration
Includes information on security alerts and checks for air travelers.
Travel Industry Association of America
"Travelers now can find information on any U.S. state and links to most tourist offices nationwide
via the Travel Industry Association of America's new Web site." (Barbara Shea. Newsday. April 23, 2000.)
Trip Prep
A comprehensive resource with recommended vaccinations, embassy listings, and crime advisories for 204 countries.
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
"The TOWD is your guide to official tourist information sources. The
Directory lists only official government tourism offices, convention and
visitors bureaus, chambers of commerce..."
Yahoo Travel Links
If you have the travel bug, Yahoo's links can provide everything else.
Arthur Frommers Outspoken Encyclopedia of Travel
6,000 pages of information, including bargains, budget travel, travel
alternatives, and links to other sites where travelers can book flights
and make other arrangements online.
Fodors
This web site contains thousands of listings for restaurants, hotels,
and recommended activities in cities worldwide.
Let's Go Travel Guides On-Line
"Witty and informative the Let's Go site offers an irreverent guide to budget world travel.
Read all about everything shoestring travel budgets can still let you do in Let's Go's "Yellowjacket
Newsletter" online."
Lonely Planet
A site that searches for requests in the Lonely Planet guide books.
National Geographic Traveler Online Archive
Fun sight to visit.
The Rough Travel Guide Online
"The Rough Guide Online offers up-to-date coverage of over 4,000 destinations worldwide."
Embassy Page
US customs service with links to embassy pages around the world.
Foreign Entry Requirements for U.S. Citizens Traveling on Tourism/Business
International SOS Assistance
Offers services for safe travel, including emergency replacement medication,
translation services, emergency travel arrangements, and even dispatching a
doctor if necessary.
Universal Currency Converter
Updated every day this site will tell you the conversion rate of any
amount of currency into another.
Via Michelin
Scan information on 4.4 million miles of road across 42 European countries.
Dinesite USA
Dinesites database of thousands of US restaurants can be browsed by
state or queried by city name, zip code, or area code.
Hotel Guide
Largest source of hotel information and booking around the world.
Hotel Reservations Network 96-Hotel
"This service claims to be the "first free nationwide discount hotel booking service
available directly over the Internet's World Wide Web." Hotel Reservations Network offers
savings of up to 65 percent off regular hotel rates in some of the world's most expensive cities,
and asserts that it can get rooms in sold out cities!"
Internet Guide to Bed and Breakfast Inns
Listing thousands of properties coast to coast, this site is a definitive
guide to B&B's in America.
MenuPages.com
Preview menus in approximately 25,000 restaurants across eight cities.
Open Table.com
Answers two questions-where should we go to eat and where can we get a table.
Travelweb
Travel Web has information on over 5,000 hotels.
GORP's U.S. National Parks and Preserves Resource List
The Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP) National Park information
is the most complete park site on the web. Great attention is paid to describe
what attractions make each park special.
National Park Servicer Park Net
At this wonderful site, you can make a virtual visit to areas across
our country. Each area is featured online with an illustrated brochure,
complete with hours and contact numbers, maps, guided tours, and much more.
Updated September 11, 2007-DW