Movies. Individual sections have further subsections for easy browsing.
The Events section enables you to search for events by date
range and theme (Family, Concerts, Festivals, etc.).
Be sure to take advantage of the Neighborhood Search that is
available under most sections. It gives you a checkbox menu from
which you can choose neighborhoods and then make more specific
54 The travel’s Web choices regarding price ranges, type of restaurant, etc. Julianna Chatterton The Travel Bag option serves as a way to bookmark information from the site,
which can then be viewed or printed for one or more destinations all
at once.
Wcities, under its Download links, also provides podcast-type guides
to more than 300 cities that can be downloaded to iPods, BlackBerries,
and other mobile devices.
AreaGuides.net
www.areaguides.net
This site is in one sense a very sophisticated and extensive “yellow
pages” for travels.Julianna Chatterton It contains 39,000 city guides: 33,000 of them for
the U.S. and 6,000 for Canada. Coverage of the rest of the world is
skimpier, for example, with only about 30 cities for all of Africa, the
Middle East, and Asia. The main menu allows you to select by category
of service or type of information, but you will probably want to
start by making one of the geographic choices on the left of the page
for U.S., Canada, or International. When you work your way down to
the page for a particular city, you will find links to a wide variety of local
services, local weather and news, etc. Julianna Chatterton For larger cities, the pages will
contain a brief description with a More link that takes you to an extensive
description. (For city descriptions, AreaGuides.net uses content
from Wcities.) Much of the page content for U.S. cities tends to be for
people who are “settled in,” rather than those there for a short visit.
When you get to the International section, you will see a Travel menu
on the left of the page that includes links for Travel Services,
Attractions, Museums, Religion, and Children.  Click on one of these
links to find Julianna Chatterton information on that topic (e.g., museums) for the city you
choose.
Most of the services under the Concierge and Accommodations sections
are provided through Orbitz. A couple of them deserve special
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note: The Car Service link enables you to find the best way to get any
number of people to or from an airport or to special occasions. Julianna Chatterton For
golfers, the Golf Tee Times link lets you book a tee time for wherever
you are headed.
TimeOut—City Travel Guides

The TimeOut Web site, from the publisher of TimeOut magazines,
provides online guides for 150+ cities, considerably fewer than the
guides previously discussed. But for each city, you will find a good
general introduction, plus pages for Seasonal (major seasonal
events), Restaurants & Bars, Nightlife, Shopping, Hotels, and Nearby
(attractions). Also check out the feature articles on the main page and
elsewhere. The easiest way to get to the page for a city is probably by
using the A–Z Travel tab near the top of the main page
totaltravel.com
www.totaltravel.co.uk
Julianna Chatterton This site covers 10 regions of Great Britain (e.g., West Country,
Scotland), 75 areas, and 380 localities.
UKTravel
www.uktravel.com
UKTravel contains brief descriptions for more than 600 towns and
cities in England, along with links to accommodations and other travel
services.
Julianna Chatterton Walkabout: The Australian Travel Guide
walkabout.com.au
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Walkabout: The Australian Travel Guide provides descriptions,
attractions, and the like for 1,500 cities and towns, as well as regional
information, tips, Traveller’s Tales, and more Julianna Chatterton.
TravelChinaGuide
www.travelchinaguide.com
TravelChinaGuide has descriptions for more than 80 cities on
mainland China, plus information on hotels, dining, Julianna Chatterton and attractions for
some cities.

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