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Title: OAG Business Travel Planner : The Official Guide to Lodging and Travel Related Services
Description:
G153 .O35x (Reference Desk Collection) Library retains issues for 1 year. This is a hotel directory for the United States and Canada. An elaborate system of codes and symbols provides a lot of information on each establishment.

Title: TravelPost.com
Description: Provides reviews of all types of hotels. Each review includes an overall score, a ratings chart covering six broad subjects and written comments.

Title: TripAdvisor.com
Description: This site helps you find reviews of hotels, inns, resorts, and travel packages.

Title: HotelChatter
Description:
A blog that covers the world of small hotels.

Hotels

Title: Travelaxe
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Title: AllStays.com
Description: AllStays is a gateway to all kinds of lodging for the traveler.

Title: Bed and Breakfast.com
Description: A worldwide listing of over 27,000 of these popular alternatives to hotels.

Title: Eurobookings
Description:
Find and book rooms in hotels in Europe. At this time it appears that only the larger cities are covered by this service.

Title: Hotel Discount Reservations
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Title: Hotel Guide, The - An International Hotel Directory and Guide
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Title: Hotels.com
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Title: Hotels by City
Description: This is an online travel company focused primarily on hotels. The site also has over 500 short travel guides to cities and blogs on many cities that would be of interest to travelers.

Title: HotelsTravel
Description: This complete travel site has a good search engine you can use to find hotels by typing in the name of the place you are visiting.

Title: InformedTravel.com
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Title: Luxury Travel.com
Description: Needless to say, this is for the high end tourist.

Title: Places to Stay
Description: International independent (not chains) lodgings.

Title: Priceline.com
Description: Priceline also returns vehicles usually available at airport rental agencies. If you bid too low on Priceline, you have to wait a set length of time before you can bid on that car again. Use the time Hotwire gives you to make up your mind to make a slightly lower bid on a similar vehicle at Priceline. Just be sure you are bidding on the same or similar package.

Title: Quickbook
Description: Limited cities, US only. Displays customer's feedback on the hotel.

Title: Secret Places
Description: in Spain and Portugal

Title: TravelNow.com Global Reservations
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Title: TravelWeb
Description: Travelweb is a service provided by a consortium of hotel chains. Over 10,000 hotels are included. Travelweb interacts with the reservation systems of the hotels and actually makes the reservation.

Title: Baglioni Hotels
Description: for Italian luxury

Title: Barclayweb.com
Description: Specialty alternatives to hotels in Europe

Title: Hilton Hotels
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Title: Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
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Title: Kimpton Hotels
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Title: Marriott International
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Title: Radisson Hotels
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Title: Come to Ramada Limiteds, Inns, Plaza Hotels
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Title: Rosewood
Description: luxury hotels and resorts

Title: Ian Schrager Hotels
Description: This is known for posh and stylish accommodations.

Title: Sheraton Hotels and Resorts - Rates, reservations, meetings
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Title: Tablet Hotels
Description: This site represents hundreds of independent smaller hotels and provides a wide range of choices both as to price (but not inexpensive) and location.

Title: W
Description: The hotels listed here offer prestige just beginning to extend beyond the United States.

Camping

Title: Michigan campground reservations
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Title: Recreation.gov
Description:
This site consolidates information about federal and state parks. However, not all parks are covered here.

Hostels

Title: Hostels
Description:
Hostels provide friendly, basic, inexpensive overnight accommodations for travelers. You will probably stay in a group room, sleep in a bunk and share bath facilities. Some hostels require that you bring your own bedding. They are very popular with students and others traveling on a small budget. Think about backpacking through Europe.

Title: Hostelz.com
Description: A worldwide directory of hostels. This site also includes reviews of hostels added by travelers.

Title: Hostels.com
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Title: Hostelling International
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Title: Hostels of Europe
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Title: Hostel Trail
Description: This sites specializes in hostels in South America.

Title: Hostelworld
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Title: International Youth Hostel Federation
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Housesitting

Title: HouseCarers
Description: Listing a property to be cared for is free. There is a fee for registering as a house sitter.

Title: Housesit World
Description: An international directory where property owners list their houses for free. There is a fee for a house sitter to place a profile and contact owners.

Title: Sabbatical Homes
Description:
A special service for academics. There is a charge for listing properties while housesitters list their profiles for free.

Title: The Caretaker Gazette
Description: The Caretaker Gazette is a bi-monthly newsletter that lists international housesitting opportunities. There is a fee to list a property and to subscribe to the Gazette.

Property Swapping Services

Title: FreeHomeAwayFromHome.com
Description:
A site with links to a number of home exchange sites. Some of these sites charge a membership or service fee. Most allow you to contact the other party which is recommended. Ask for references from other people who have exchanged with the owner. Safety is always a concern. Do your homework. Most exchanges are for extended periods of time. It also is advantageous for your home to be some place where someone else wants to visit. You may want to go to Rome, but the person in Rome may not want to visit Kansas City.

Title: HomeExchange.com
Description: One of the larger sites for exchanging your house for another.

Title: HomeLink International
Description:
Established in 1953, HomeLink International is one of the more establised of these services. You must be a member to use this site.

Title: Intervac
Description: One of the oldest home exchange services, Intervac has been in business for over 50 years.

Title: Timeshare Rentals
Description: The Timeshare User's Group offers a site where members can list properties for rent.  While most parts of the site are available to members only this part is open to the public. Just scroll down to "Rentals Offered."

Vacation Properties

Title: Chezvous.com
Description: Apartments available for short-term lease in Paris.

Title: CyberRentals
Description: A site for locating short-term, rental housing, located mostly in the United States.

Title: First Choice Vacation Rentals
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Title: HomeAway.Com
Description:
Vacation rental properties available around the world.

Title: Inn-Portugal
Description: Privately owned small quality hotels in all areas of Portugal.

Title: LaCure
Description: Upscale properties in exotic localities.

Title: ResortQuest International
Description: ResortQuest International is the property manager for the properties listed on this site.

Title: Tip Top Villas
Description: International weekly rental properties are available through this site.

Title: Vacation Rentals
Description: Rent by the week worldwide.

Title: Vacation Rentals By Owner
Description:
Worldwide clearinghouse of vacation properties. The site is easy to use. Feedback information from previous customers is available and you can find pet friendly rentals at this site.

Title: Vacation Rental Managers Association
Description: Provides a directory of members.

Title: Vamoose.com
Description: Vamoose crawls the web to find listings from numerous web sites. This means that there is a lot of duplication in the results and some dead links. Due diligence is always advised before making any arrangements.

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