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Airlines.com
Includes online reservations for airlines, cars and hotels, an airline search engine, and a summary of the leading tradeshows for the travel industry.

Epicurious
Daily Recipes, Gail's Recipe Swap, Chef Finder, Food & Wine Dictionary, Metric Conversion Table, Cooking Basics and Cooking Tips Video Techniques.

Virtual Vineyards
Shop for wine / food / gifts. Find the best red and white wines for you.

Zagat Dining Guide & Zagat Survey
"Our goal is to be the most trusted, useful, up-to-date guide to quality dining experiences--focusing on discerning customers in the major business cities of the world." Read funny outtakes from their surveys.

Alta Vista Translator
Translate from English to Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and vice a versa.

Foreign Currency Converter
"Free currency converter, all 164 world currencies, charts, advanced foreign exchange forecast, trader advisories. Receive currency updates in your Inbox with FX Mail."

Foreign Languages for Travelers
Pick the language you speak and the language you want to learn (choose from 33 languages). Learn Basic words, how to say and ask for the date and time, directions, etc...

Translation Dictionary
"Provides a large number of dictionaries which translate between many different languages!"

Naval Clock
Features: Eastern , Central, Mountain, Pacific Daylight Time, Alaska Daylight Time and Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time.

Time Zone Converter
"Time and time zone converter. Readily tell the time anywhere in the world using our frequently updated time zone database."

Time Zones
"The World Clock shows current time in cities all over the world"

World Time
"World Time Zone provides the current time in locations worldwide, including accurate adjustments for daylight savings time."

American Express Travel
"Your destination for real-time airline reservations, information and booking, plus great vacation values and quality travel services."

American Express Travel Consulting Services
"Team of experienced procurement and expense management consultants provide customized services and solutions, drawing on the use of one of the most comprehensive databases of benchmarking information in the industry."

Biz Travel
"Fast, easy booking of flights, hotel rooms, & rental cars. Home of the Techno Traveler."

Business Travel Etiquette Club
"A business etiquette site to help international business travelers properly conduct themselves while working in different cultures."

Expedia
"Expedia.com is the premier online travel planning and flight-booking site. Find Special Deals, check airfares, purchase airline tickets, make hotel and car reservations, read travel news, find destination information."

Fodors
"Fodor's is short for Fodor's Travel Publications, a subsidiary of Random House, Inc. and the largest publisher of English-language travel information in the world. Fodor's now publishes 14 guidebook series and more than 290 titles to destinations around the world. (For the scoop on all our series, check out our key to the guides.)"

HotelsTravel.com
"Containing over 25,000 links to lodging and travel-related web-site, the most complete, comprehensive and up-to-date lodging directory on the web"

Embassy Web
"Your daily resource for diplomatic news, international and consular affairs, trade contacts, travel info, jobs and more."

Fodor's Ravel Online
"Fodor's is short for Fodor's Travel Publications, a subsidiary of Random House, Inc. and the largest publisher of English-language travel information in the world. Fodor's now publishes 14 guidebook series and more than 290 titles to destinations around the world. (For the scoop on all our series, check out our key to the guides."

Hotel View
"Hotel View provides a video "walking" tour through select hotels worldwide. Take an inside look at the accommodations, amenities, recreation and entertainment. See the rooms, experience the view, get a "taste" of the restaurants. Complete with maps, showing nearby attractions and airports, Hotel View offers the closest thing to a visit BEFORE leaving home."

Internet Travel Network
"ITN provides a full range of Internet-based travel services including air schedules and fares, car rentals, hotels, and book travel reservations directly from your Web browser. We streamline the process by presenting information in an easy to read, easy to use format - in "normal" language, not "travelese". Users see all available options that meet their budget, travel times and any specified travel preferences or corporate travel policies."

Lonely Planet
"Lonely Planet publishes the world's best guidebooks for independent travelers. Our books are known worldwide for reliable, insightful, pull-no-punches travel information, maps, photos, and background historical and cultural information. Subscribe to Lonely Planet's free email newsletter, Comet, for top-notch travel news."

Lowest Fare
"Lowest Fare (formerly known as Global Discount Travel Services LLC) is a full-service provider of discount travel products and services to the leisure and small business traveler. We commenced our operations in August 1995 and launched our original Web-site in October 1996. In 1998, we redesigned our Web-site to add content and functionality to the site to make the user experience more productive. The Company is made up of a team of professionals dedicated to serve the sophisticated and savvy traveler."

Map Quest
"Map Quest is the most highly-rated and popular interactive mapping service on the World Wide Web. Map Quest offers consumers the ability to find over three million locations worldwide, obtain driving directions, overlay places of interest, and create and save personalized maps."

Microsoft Expedia
"Expedia.com is the premier online travel planning and flight-booking site. Find Special Deals, check airfares, purchase airline tickets, make hotel and car reservations, read travel news, find destination information."

Preview Travel
"Preview Travel, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTVL) is a leading provider of online travel services for leisure and small-business travelers. It offers one-stop shopping for airline tickets, vacation packages, car rentals, hotels and cruises, as well as integrated access to travel information, merchandise, news and world-class customer service. Preview Travel's trained travel agents provide customer service 24 hours a day, seven days a week via a toll-free number and email. Preview Travel has a growing community of more than 8 million registered members and reported gross bookings of $200.1 million in 1998, $76.7 million in Q1 '99 and $90 million in Q2 '99."

Travelocity
"One of the most powerful one-stop travel sites on the Internet providing secure online reservation capabilities for air, car, hotel and vacation reservations, plus access to a vast database of destination and other travel information."

Travel Warnings
"Issued when the State Department decides, based on all relevant information, to recommend that Americans avoid travel to a certain country. Countries where avoidance of travel is recommended will have Travel Warnings as well as Consular Information Sheets."

The Trip
"Get City and Country info before you travel. Find a flight, reserve a hotel, rent a car."

The Weather Channel
"Weather.com, The Best Source of Weather Information on the Web, offers forecasts for over 1600 cities worldwide as well as numerous radar and satellite maps. From the latest weather news stories to allergy information, The Weather Channel web site is your complete source of weather information."

Web Flyer
"Web Flyer is the number one source of online frequent flyer program information."

U.S. State Department Travel Information
"For information of a non-medical nature including civil unrest, crime, or natural disasters (such as, earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, forest fires etc.) you may want to check the U.S. State Department consular information sheets or warnings by country."

Amtrak
"Question about your trip? Want to know where you can make an Amtrak reservation? Wondering if you can bring along a CD player? Need help with our online ticketing system? Amtrak can help."

Health Info: Int'l Travel
"National Center for Infectious Diseases offers Vaccine recommendations, and the lasted news on health issues around the world."

Passport Services
"The Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs has prepared this publication to assist you in applying for your U.S. passport. This guide provides information on how, when and where to apply for your passport."

Real Time Flight Tracking
"You can find out about current flights between major cities within the United States. Remember that this is real time flight data so it only shows flights that are flying, have recently flown, or are about to take off."

Road Construction
"If construction-zone orange makes you see red, visit this award-winning database of major road construction projects. "

Airport Delays
"Before heading to the airport, check here to learn whether your airport is experiencing any delays. Information is available for the 40 busiest airports across the United States."

National Buoy Center
"Click on the highlighted regional maps to view our station locations; click on the buoy locations in the regional maps for access to data and station information."

Weather Channel
"Weather.com, The Best Source of Weather Information on the Web, offers forecasts for over 1600 cities worldwide as well as numerous radar and satellite maps. From the latest weather news stories to allergy information, The Weather Channel web site is your complete source of weather information."

Yahoo! Weather
"Storm Center, Weather Maps, Records & Averages, Weather News, Ski Report."

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