Word Travels is a series of
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 det ...
available on the internet. Originally launched in 2001, the guides were originally developed for use within
travel agencies
A travel agency is a private Retailing, retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related Service (economics), services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel supply chain, suppliers to offer different kin ...
, 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. A key feature of the site is the Word Travels Forum, where travelers questions get answered by travel professionals within each destination. The guides Word Travels produces are found on various airline, hotel and travel agency websites. The travel guides that Word Travels produces can be found as an iPhone app on
Apple's App Store
The App Store is an app marketplace developed and maintained by Apple, for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems. The store allows users to browse and download approved apps developed within Apple's iOS SDK. Apps can be downloade ...
, and on the
Kindle Store
The Kindle Store is an online e-book e-commerce store operated by Amazon as part of its retail website and can be accessed from any Amazon Kindle, Fire tablet, or Kindle mobile app. At the launch of the Kindle in November 2007, the store had ...
.
Word Travels is published by
Globe Media Limited, a privately held company with offices in
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
and
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...
. Globe Media also produces the Expat Arrivals city guides, which are used widely within the relocation industry and are relied upon as a source of information by their clients.
References 100 best travel websites - The Times
External links
wordtravels.com
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Travel guide books
South African travel websites