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Travelocity.com - One of the leading travel sites, it allows user to research and book airline tickets, hotels, car rental, cruise ships and travel packages. It also features special offers on last minute packages. Under the Activities section, the user can search and book tee times, site seeing tours, shows, expeditions, and more. |
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Expedia - This major travel site offers a broad selection of special deals, including vacation packages, hotels and cruises. A comprehensive tools and support section provides such helpful postings as the imminent change in passport regulations, travel alerts and airport guides. |
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Orbitz - Orbitz provides users with access to 455 airlines and some of the lowest prices on flights, hotels and rental cars. Offers featured deals and discounted cruise fares for online customers only. |
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Yahoo Travel - Yahoo's travel site has established itself right up there with the other leading specialty travel sites. It offers personalized content and search options, as well as chatrooms, free e-mail and pager notifications. |
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Hotwire - Another discount site that offers online search and booking of flights, lodging and car rental. Seems to have especially good rates on three and four-star hotels. Free registration is required. |
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Priceline - Online buying service where users can name their price for such travel services as airline tickets, hotel lodging, cruises and car rentals. It's not exclusively a travel site, so it doesn't offer the breadth of travel-related information and services that you'll find on the specialty sites. |
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AAA - Site of the American Automobile Association, a travel club formed in 1902 to serve the emerging automobile travel industry. Of course, now the organization has expanded beyond auto travel and offers all types of travel services as well as insurance. Most sections of the site are available without AAA membership. |
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Fodor's - This site specializes in in-depth hotel and restaurant reviews in destination cities around the world as well as travel tips. In addition, it has joined forces with online travel specialty sites, Expedia and hotels.com to allow users to book travel and lodging all in one place. |
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Lonely Planet - This site focuses on international travel and provides a wealth of helpful information for world travelers including news, destination ideas, travel tips and health related advice. It allows user to book hotel or hostel accommodations, purchase travel insurance and purchase travel clothing and accessories. |
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Iexplore - Iexplore has created a terrific resource for the growing adventure travel niche …for those who want to do more on their vacation than lie on a beach. It also supplies the adventure travel content for many of the leading online travel sites. |
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Trip Advisor - This is a great site to visit before you book a trip. It provides trip reviews, a listing of top 10 hot spots; and a free newsletter with special offers, articles and reviews tailored to the destination of your choice. |
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Travel.com - The self proclaimed “one stop shop for travel” offers users the convenience of comparing air fares and hotel rates of the other major travel sites. In addition, it features travel packages to nearly 900 destinations and more than 100,000 hotel listings. |
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Travel Zoo - This site features select specials on airfare, cruises, lodging, car rental and vacation packages from hundreds of travel companies. This is a good site if you're shopping for deals. |
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