| Publishers of well known international series of
travel guides often have their own web sites. Some just
serve as a sales tool for the books, others, however,
offer comprehensive, easy accessible and current
information about the destinations described in the
books. The information can help you pick a destination
(and a guide book), but also gives you updated and extra
information that's not (or not yet) in the books. |
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| Rough
Guides |
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| Very comprehensive site with information on more than
4,000 destinations. Very useful beside the books, but
also in its own right. The texts from many of their books
is available on-lne, but more easily accessible. Rough
Guides cover the well known sites, but also covers the
less beaten tracks. For travellers with a broad interest,
from budget traveller to upper mid range. Rough Guide
publishes Country and Regional guides, but introduced
recently Mini-Guides on cities. Beside that there is also
a series of phrase books and themed guides (Internet,
Women, Music, Millennium etc). |
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| Lonely
Planet |
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| The Lonely Planet site gives a brief impression of
the content of the books published by them. Complete with
photographs. The Lonely Planet guides are similar to
Rough Guides', boht in range, style and interests. My
impression, though, is that LP is more concerned with
your budget and prefers cheaper accommodation and
restaurants and other ways to cut costs. |
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| Time Out
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| Time Out guides are a spin-off from the London
magazine with the same name. They are city guides with
emphasis on going out. Eating, drinking, dancing, music,
theatre and shopping, they all get a good deal of
attention. But the cultural sights are not forgotten, but
the guide books do not deny their origins. The web site
gives you good, up-to-date and easy access information on
the cities covered by the guide book series. There is
also a possibility to place personal adds.
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| Frommer
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| These guides primarily target the budget travellerr.
The site is sort of travel magazine, with articles, tips,
ideas (from fellow travellers), offers and infromation
about and by travel operators. |
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| City.net |
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| On line travel informtion by search engine Exite. Not
always that reliable and often slow, because it a
collection of hyperlinks to other suppliers of
information. It's mainly city information on
accommodation, restaurants, sigths and the weather. |
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