Geography - Travel Subject Guide
General Travel Sites
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Total Travel Web Sites
Title: SideStep
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A metasearch service that includes the general travel sites, consolidators, and individual airlines, hotels and vehicle rental agencies.
Title: Away.com
Description: Tour packages
Title: BookingBuddy
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Title: Concierge.com
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Title: Destination Europe
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Title: Economy Travel
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Title: Expedia Travel
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A general travel site with flights, hotels, car rentals, cruises, etc.
Title: Fodors.com
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Title: HomeAndAbroad
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In partnership with Expedia, Home and Abroad offers a complete trip planning service.
Title: Independent Traveler
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Title: Kayak.com
Description: Kayak is a meta-search engine that searches hundreds of other websites in real time for travel deals.
Title: mobissimo
Description: A travel search engine that searches other travel sites. This site allows for concept searching based on "Activity Tags" like golf or surfing to build a vacation package.
Title: My Travel Guide
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Tools for the independent traveler.
Title: Orbitz
Description: Formed by five major airlines (American, Continental, Delta, Northwest and United) to provide an online clearinghouse for tickets, ORBITZ is quickly becoming a full service travel site.
Title: Travel Hero
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Title: Travelocity
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Another general travel site with flights, hotels, car rentals, cruises, etc.
Title: Travelzoo
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For "sales, specials, and promotions from hundreds of travel companies."
Title: Trip.com
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Title: Yahoo Travel
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Title: TripIt
Description: TripIt uses information from your confirmation emails and information you add to organize your plane tickets, hotel reservations, and planned stops and create a complete itinerary of your trip.
Tour Packages
Title: Big Five Tours & Expeditions
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Title: Continental Journeys
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Title: Cosmos
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Title: Gate1Travel
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Title: Mayflower Tours
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Title: Page & Moy
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Title: Trafalgar Tours
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Student Travel Sites
Title: Western Michigan University - Study Abroad Programs
Description: There are many opportunities for studying abroad offered by this office in the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education.
Title: AESU Online
Description: AESU Online specializes in travel for students aged 18 to 35.
Title: STA Travel
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Title: Student Universe
Description:
Travel information for students.
Last Minute Travel Planning
Title: lastminute.com
Description: A total package discounter. At the bottom of this page are links to lastminute sites for foreign countries.
Title: Last Minute Travel
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Travel Auctions
Title: Travel Auctions
Description: It is important to read the small print when using these sites. You might be bidding on a flight only to find you have agreed to pay for premium hotel accommodations. Look for additional charges such as taxes and airport fees in the description of the item being offered.
Title: BiddingForTravel.com
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Bidding on airfare and hotels is available here.
Title: Bid 4 Vacations
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Title: Sky Auction
Description: At Sky Auction you will find airline tickets, package vacations, cruises and accommodations.
Title: All Cruise Auction
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Title: LuxuryLink
Description: While not its primary business, this site does include auctions of some more expensive cruises, tour packages, hotel accommodations and first or business class airline tickets. LuxuryLink sets a mininum bid on all auctions.
Title: Amazon Auctions
Description: Includes travel related offerings.
Title: eBay
Description: Ebay includes travel-related offerings. Because of concerns about fraudulent offernings, Ebay now requires all sellers of travel-related services to register with SquareTrade.com, a seller verification and dispute resolution service.