TRAVEL GUIDES

Travel Guides are a source for finding everything and anything about a travel destination, country or travel specialty e.g. island holidays. Find a new travel location to go to for your next vacation, or read up on the destination you have already chosen.

Trip Advisor The very popular Trip Advisor website is a great first choice travel portal for anyone interested in planning a trip away. It provides reviews of vacations, resorts, travel destinations, hotels, and holiday packages. It is strong in its reviews of vacations in Europe, USA, Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. As a reservation agent, we cannot list with this web site. The reviews are detailed and thorough, and are sourced from a variety of media. Interesting, comprehensive and detailed. www.tripadvisor.com

The Top 100 Travel Sites The Top 100 Travel Sites showcases the best travel sites on the web, ranked by visitor popularity. Currently has around about 1000 sites listed in their directory. The sites place a voting link on their own sites, and the more votes, the higher the popularity, and the higher the ranking in their travel category. Sites also receive traffic from their listings in the directory itself. This voting concept is widely used in other web subjects but new to travel. It seems to be a growing trend however as the Top 100 website is very popular with visitors. For travelers, the site is organized into geographical categories, with a site search feature to fine tune searches. Nice, easy to use interface. All listings are reviewed by editors. The depth and breadth of listings is limited at present but growing. www.top100travelsites.com

Travel Notes One of the most comprehensive one-stop travel sources on the web. Its popularity comes from the extensive number of travel offerings and services it provides travelers. Travel Notes features destinations, vacation packages, holiday auctions, reviews, travel insurance, country backgrounds, cruises, car rentals etc. A real travel portal. Very detailed and well organized for travelers searching for just about anything. www.travelnotes.org

World Web World Web is one of the largest travel portals on the web, with over 150,000 pages of travel information, and has been around since 1994. It has a very comprehensive suite of features, solutions and tools for the traveler. It provides travelers with the ability to plan a holiday and make reservations online, as well as search for accommodation, tours, restaurants, shopping and entertainment in a preferred holiday destination. It is a very well organized and attractive site, combining a directory as well as travel tools and reviews, and boasts a great depth of travel information and listings. It is not global in its coverage of countries, but instead focuses on Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, and the USA. www.worldweb.com

The Kasbah The Kasbah is a large and well researched, organized and attractively presented travel directory, receiving well over a million visitors a month. Their travel guides section is one of the largest on the web, with links to over 2000,000 sites and editorials on the world’s major cities, countries and resorts. Comprehensive listing of reservations, specialty travel, travel discounts, travel insurance etc. Attractive, easy to navigate around, and well thought out categories. www.kasbah.com

Trip Spot This travel site provides one of the best-organized and easy to use categories of travel listings on the web. At Trip Spot travelers can find information on travel news, maps, weather forecasts, deal finders, reservation services, travel auctions, destination ideas, state and international tourism information, airlines, rentals cars, hotels, campsites, dining, festivals and much more. Combines everything into one portal. Excellent links to travel websites globally. www.tripspot.com

Real Adventures This award-winning site offers not only information on travel adventures, it also lists accommodation and travel options for a wide range of travel interests, lifestyles and destinations. The Real Adventures destination guides are very detailed and cover all of the popular destinations globally, and beautifully blend sponsored listings into general destination information. The Travel Ideas section is a useful listing of specialty travel themes, such as golf and wet & wild vacations, as well active, educational and nature-based holidays and venues. Very well thought out and different. www.realadventures.com