Today's most authoritative guide on how to travel anywhere, anyhow. This guide contains expert advice from the world's most experienced travelers, personal reflections from globe-trotting celebrities, survival tips and health facts, profiles of every country as well as a comprehensive contacts directory. Whether you're a backpacker or a business traveler, an adventurer or a beginner, you'll find this book essential and inspiring. (5 x 7 1/4, 960 pages, charts)

Changes within the travel industry, such as globalization, consumerism, and advancements in technology, have transformed travel agencies into highly competitive businesses. To remain successful, new business approaches and models must be created in the global tourism and hospitality industry. Travel companies continue to expand their businesses in different countries and seek to collaborate with international entrepreneurs, developing the need for cross-cultural strategies and policies. As travel agencies flourish, identifying these business practices is necessary for these organizations to obtain a competitive management model at the global level. The Handbook of Research on International Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management gathers the latest methodologies, tools, models, and theories regarding tourism development and sustainability into one comprehensive reference source in order to promote, manage, and maximize the profitability potential of travel agencies and tour operation services. Featuring research on topics such as e-marketing, medical tourism, and online travel, this book provides travel agents, managers, industry professionals, researchers, academics, and students with the necessary resources to effectively develop and implement organizational strategies and models.

Interested in international travel but not sure how to make it happen? The Aspiring Traveler's Handbook, written by Travel Blogger and Podcaster Jackie Laulainen, is your A-Z guide for planning your trip. It will take you step by step through choosing a destination, buying a plane ticket, getting a visa or passport, staying safe abroad, using your cell phone overseas, and everything in between. And the best part? Jackie is The Budget-Minded Traveler, sharing insider tips on saving money throughout every stage of your travels. Here's a peek at what you will learn from this book: * Find out exactly what you should look for and watch out for in a destination country before you decide where to go. * Not sure what you need to do to apply for a passport or visa? You'll find that out, too. * Get the inside scoop about finding a great deal on a plane ticket, so you can enjoy a bigger budget abroad or even another trip in your calendar. * Find out how to pack efficiently, so you don't overpack or bring the wrong type of luggage for your trip. * Take advice straight from the budget expert about planning (and staying on) a budget for your travels, so you don't have unrealistic expectations and can make your money last as long as possible.* Learn the many tricks of protecting yourself and your valuables abroad, so you can take preventive measures before any bad situations arise. * Find out what important things you need to take care of at home before you leave, so your life abroad can be more stress-free and enjoyable. * Learn about international programs and opportunities that might give you just the structure you need to go abroad. * Be inspired to actually make your travel dreams a reality. If you want to travel but have so many questions you don't even know what they are, this book was written specifically for YOU. Here is what people are saying about The Aspiring Traveler's Handbook: "I cannot imagine where I would be in my travel planning without this book! I am a first time international traveler, and all the "extra" stuff about traveling is foreign to me. From reading this book, I have become knowledgeable and confident in taking my dream trip! I am extremely excited about traveling now and I will recommend this book to anyone who wants their travel dreams to come true. Thank you!" "This is a book I will keep with me and refer back to, not only when I am traveling to other countries, but in the US as well. Travel light, be aware of your surroundings, BUDGET, splurge on the experiences that really matter, research... The list goes on and on." "It feels like you are sitting right next to Jackie at a coffee shop discussing your trip and she is giving you advice on how to really get there and make it a reality." "This is a little gem, easy to read, full of great information, and you get the bonus of actually having a blog to follow after you finish the book." "The only con to reading this book is that my travel bug just started itching like crazy!" "This book is full of answers to many of the questions I had when I started traveling. It even has great tips and good ideas for the experienced traveler. When the travel bug bites, this is the book to get you started on your adventures!"

Part of the Traveler's Handbook series, The Food Traveler's Handbook provides a compelling argument for why it is important to use food as a lens through which you see the world. Using this handbook as a guide, you will learn how to eat safely in developing countries, source cheap but delicious streetside meals and discover how to make food a tool for understanding a new place and connecting to its local culture.

A comprehensive guide to travel around the world includes advice on passports, the choice of transportation, coping with money problems, luggage, and locating accommodations

Does this book really have over 127 tips and tools for planning an international trip? Well, let's just say we stopped counting at that number. You see, this little handbook is packed with over 127 insights, websites, and resources that are essential for any traveler planning to go abroad. Are the tips and tools really secret? Actually yes, they are secret-at least no one told us about them before we journeyed abroad and we had done a lot of research and preparation. We had to discover many of them the hard way as we traveled around the world to more than 70 countries. These are the secrets we wished we had found, in a concise and consolidated book like this one, before we went abroad. Why did we write this book? We love to travel, and the more we traveled the world, the more we learned how to travel smarter, safer, and cheaper. When friends realized how much traveling we had done, the more questions they would ask us about how to travel. We soon realized we could answer just about every question that came our way. That is when we decided to share our travel knowledge as a way to help, enable, and inspire others to travel abroad. From that desire sprang over twenty classes that we teach in person and online, as well as this handbook, the first book in our Travel Smart Strategies series. Now you can travel smarter, safer, and cheaper too. Happy Travels!

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.