Travel Reading & Reference
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Top Sites
The Paperboy – Huge directory of thousands of newspapers around the world.
Wildjunket Magazine – A digital flipbook magazine with a focus on outdoor adventures and special interest journeys. Available by single issue or subscription.
Women on the Road – A great site with plenty of advice aimed at empowering women to travel solo. The site also contains a good selection of working abroad articles.
Links
Avalon Travel Publishing – Over 300 guidebooks under a number of brands, including Moon Handbooks and Rick Steves.
CIA World Factbook – A world reference guide of use to both travellers and those looking to overthrow a small nation.
Drift Surfing – Magazine for surfers.
Fodors – Guidebook publishers.
Frommers.com – US guidebook publishers that began with the 1957 publication of Arthur Frommer’s revolutionary Europe on $5 a Day. Today the Frommer’s collection of travel products has expanded to include over 300 guidebooks.
Lets Go – US publisher of travel guides researched and written by Harvard Students. There is plenty to read online too.
Lonely Planet – Needs little introduction. A huge range of books and former host of what was once the best travel message boards on the web. Shame.
Matador – I keep coming back to this online travel magazine network for its informative and frequently funny material, from facing your own nationality abroad to hostel sex. Updated with new articles daily, Matador tends to avoid destination articles and concentrates on topics such as green travel, photography, writing, politics and culture.
National Geographic – A quality travel magazine. Famous in pre internet days for giving adolescent boys some of their first fleeting glimpses of the female breast.
The Paperboy – Huge directory of thousands of newspapers around the world.
Rough Guides – Respected publisher of travel and other guidebooks.
Time Out – City guidebooks and magazines. Particularly strong on nightlife and entertainment listings.
Travelers’ Tales – Publishers of stories, wit and wisdom from travellers around the world.
Travellady Magazine – A great site that has been around since 1995 offering over 13,000 travel articles by over 200 international travel writers who have been there, done that, and bought the T-shirt.
Travellerspoint – A free worldwide travel community with tools and services to help travellers before, during and after their trip.
Travel Mag – Great site with lots of interesting and informative articles.
TravelNotes.org – Large directory of articles and information arranged by subject and region. Also an opportunity to submit your own travel writing.
Travel.org – A travel directory that has been around since 1996, and looks it.
Wanderlust – A long standing glossy champion of independent travel. Still going strong since 1993.
Wildjunket Magazine – A digital flipbook magazine with a focus on outdoor adventures and special interest journeys. Available by single issue or subscription.
Women on the Road – A great site with plenty of advice aimed at empowering women to travel solo. The site also contains a good selection of working abroad articles.