Online Travel Guide
Travel Bag Fodor’s Travel Online (www.fodors.com) is the superlative travel guide on the Web, offering broad-ranging, high-quality information on travel across the world, on a site that is extremely easy to navigate. You probably recognize the name — Fodor publishes hundreds of travel guidebooks each year on destinations around the globe. The highlight of the site is the personal trip planner that generates a custom-tailored travel guide. Just choose a destination, indicate your areas of interest by clicking on the appropriate buttons and, voilà, you’ve got a custom itinerary that includes: information on accommodations, sight-seeing suggestions, restaurant recommendations, cruise schedules, sports and adventure vacation packages and price ranges for all of the above. Fodors.com also offers more formal hotel and restaurant guides, as well as a message board where you can commiserate with fellow travelers. The resource center provides general travel resources, helpful advice and the “Smart Travel Tips” forum, designed for exchanging useful, “ingenious ideas that ease and enliven your travels … not related to a particular destination.” The “Know Before You Go” section contains U.S. government health and travel advisories, a currency converter and mini foreign-language courses (French, German, Spanish and Italian). For those who prefer the old-fashioned printed guidebook, the site provides a directory of the well-known Fodor’s volumes, complete with a section on forthcoming titles and purchasing information. www.Fodors.com <<< SK