BOOKS & eBOOKS
THE INTERNET TRAVEL GUIDE
Surf the Web and Travel Right
Edited by Kimberley A. Strassel
Internet /
Transportation / Travel
$19.95
Softcover
ISBN 0-944188-17-6
208 pages, 210x150mm/8.50x5.50in.
Spring 2000
Here's the guide to launch you into cyber travel space. How to navigate the web to make all your travel arrangements and save time and money. Find all the shortcuts and best sites.
Everyone today seems to be clicking onto the web to make their travel plans. The Internet Travel Guide will get you on your way with it's extensive listing of the best travel sites. Instead of suffering through the formidable information in travel cyberspace this book will guide you to the sites that offer clear, concise and essential data.
Cyberspace now seems set to be the first stop on the traveler's itinerary, we are in the age of electronic ticketing and agentless reservation systems. Airlines, hotel and other travel suppliers, along with a new breed of online travel agencies, are all laying out their wares on the World Wide Web. Travelers now have instant access to a rapidly expanding galaxy of user-friendly systems that allow to plan and book all their travel simply by pointing and clicking with a mouse.
This timely guide will give hands-on advice on how to make the best use of the Internet to:
Navigate the travel Web sites easily to save time and money
Plan and book one's own travel
Book airline tickets, air taxi, helicopter, hotel rooms, rental cars, limo services
Cruises and casinos
Check for deals and steals
Destination guides, embassies and travel documents, passport and visa services
Weather and maps
Health and security warnings
Insurance and currency exchange
Family travel, women travelers, senior travel
Gay and lesbian travelers
Budget travel
Honeymoon and romance
Ecotourism and nature travel
Vacation giveaway contests and much much more
In the new millennium using the Internet to make all your travel arrangements will become increasingly more common yet demanding. This guide will help facilitate your search with easy to follow information, fascinating sites, clear language and effective navigating. The Internet Travel Guide presents the best in combining travel and technology.
About
the author: Kimberley A. Strassel has been the assistant
editorial features editor for the Wall Street
Journal. Previous to that she spent four years in London
writing about the Internet as a staff reporter forthe
Wall Street Journal Europe, where she also
contributed to Convergence, the WJSE's magazine on
technology.
