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WordTravels
Launched in 2001, Word Travels has become one of the most popular independent series of travel guides available on the internet. The guides were originally developed for use within travel agencies, offering travel consultants information on thousands of worldwide destinations. Word Travels makes most of its content available online, offering guides to more than 1000 worldwide destinations, from Azerbaijan to Zurich. A key feature of the site is the Word Travels Forum, where travellers questions get answered by travel professionals within each destination. Word Travels produces the travel guides found on many of the most popular airline, hotel and travel agency websites. The Word Travels guides are now available as iPhone Apps and on the Kindle store. Word Travels is published by Globe Media Limited, a privately held company with offices in both London and Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel Guides
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included. Different kinds of guide books exist, focusing on different aspects of travel, from adventure travel to relaxation, or aimed at travelers with different incomes, or focusing on sexual orientation or types of diet. Travel guides can also take the form of travel websites. History Antiquity A forerunner of the guidebook was the ''periplus'', an itinerary from landmark to landmark of the ports along a coast. A ''periplus'' such as the ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'' was a manuscript document that listed, in order, the ports and coastal landmarks, with approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along a shore. This work was possibly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
