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The BBC Profiles provide an economic, historical, and political overview, with a section on current leaders. The Profiles also list the media outlets, which include television and radio stations and the press.

National Geographic's People and Places feature provides a short overview of the destination and include a Features section with related articles, photos, and videos, depending on the destination.

Travel + Leisure Magazine's guide to the greatest hotels worldwide as selected by its team of reporters and editors.

Weatherbase provides historical weather information such as "average number of day above 90," "average number of days with thunderstorms," and other similar types of data.

From website: Come to the Czech Republic, a country where students , and the elderly alike can enjoy a great holiday, a country just made for holidaying with children , romantic breaks for couples and business meetings . Come and visit a country of famous composers and create your own symphony for the senses.
Prague , the Czech capital, is one of the most beautiful cities in the world with an inimitable atmosphere created by its millennium of history. Countless museums, galleries and other tourist sights can also be found in the regions of the Czech Republic.....click for website

Up-to-date information provided by the State Department on matters such as passport and visa requirements, safety and security, crime, health and medical issues, any areas of instability, and the location of the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate. It also links to Travel Warnings for that country, if there is one.

Frommer's Forums are divided into countries, and all the messages relating to a country are presented in a list that makes it easy to browse through the topics.

Review site with hotel reviews and candid photos posted by users.

Concierge.com destinations guides include information on getting there, getting around, lodging, places to eat, see and do, ... etc. Although Concierge.com may not have as many hotel recommendations as some guide books, they provide hotel photos along with the recommendations. The destinations guides also have links to articles about the destination published by Concierge.com or Conde Nast Traveler.

Frommer's has put a substantial amount of content online, making Frommers.com a good resource for travel planning. The site is easy to navigate since all the destinations are organized by similar topics such as "Getting There," "Restaurants," and "Suggested Itineraries."

USA Today's Country Guides have information on topics such as Money, Health, Accommodations, Entertainment, Top Things To Do and See, Getting There, Getting Around, Climate, and Map. You can also select the topics you are interested in and create a mini guide that puts all the information on one page for easy reading.

From Conde Nast Traveler
Published March 2006
Sprinkled throughout Europe are fairy-tale hamlets that offer a taste of the Continent as it used to be-places where simple pleasures and centuries-old rhythms seem to slow the world's very rotation, and where even the stillness speaks volumes. "Guidebooks privilege cities and sites, but the history-not to mention the romance-is often far more potent in villages," writes Cristina Nehring, who took her thesis on the road last summer to three countries: France, Greece, and Italy. There, she discovered entire cultures writ small-in the scent of lavender, a taste of black truffle, and the Hellenic art of doing absolutely nothing ... click for full article

From Conde Nast Traveler
Published November 2006
Famous son Franz Kafka once wrote that "Prague never lets you go." Seventeen years after the end of Communist rule, the Czech capital's cultural, culinary, and club scenes are in full swing-and its allure more potent that ever. Guy Martin reports ... click for full article

From Conde Nast Traveler
Published June 2005
Being the European education of an American spa lover, in which Dana Dickey surrenders to the therapies of water-from the subterranean to the Mediterranean. Who says old Europe has nothing to teach us? ... click for full article

From Conde Nast Traveler
Published December 2005
You can delve deeper into an unfamiliar culture when you are able to gain access to places, events, and people that are normally off-limits. Below are 50 examples of such extraordinary opportunities worldwide, ranging in price from $80 to $30,000. This list is not exhaustive: The very act of publicizing some rare opportunities offered by the most well-connected travel firms would burn the bridges that make them possible. Furthermore, many of the options described on these pages include special features that we are forbidden to divulge but that will surely enrich your trip. Because of the nature of such experiences, they are of course subject to change and even cancellations. Most cannot be booked a la carte but only as part of a larger itinerary. (Note that prices quoted are estimates for two people.) ... click for full article

From Conde Nast Traveler
Published August 2007
Unrivaled access, special connections, destination savvy-these are just some of the tools each of these uber-agents can deploy to bring the most to your next big trip. In parsing the day-to-day events of an actual itinerary, Consumer News Editor Wendy Perrin demonstrates how the intuitive maneuvers of a great travel planner can turn any journey into a smoothly orchestrated, magical experience. ... click for full article

Virtual Tourist has user reviews on topics such as Hotels, Things To Do, Restaurants, Local Customs, Nightlife, Off the Beaten Path, Tourist Traps, Transportation, ... etc.

In addition to standard listings on attractions, restaurants, and lodging, Fodors.com has a section called "Features" that are specific to the destination. For example, the Features section for Paris has articles titled "Cheese Primer," "Bistro to Brasserie," "Pampering Spas," . . . etc.

Gayot's 72 Hour Vacations describe a 3 day itinerary with suggestions of where to eat, what to see, and where to stay.

IGoUGo is a travel review site. The reviews are organized into "journals," which are a collection of reviews by an author about a trip, such as reviews on hotels, restaurants, nightlife, experiences, photos, ... etc.

From Conde Nast Traveler
Published June 2007
It's the night before our three-day drive through Central Europe's castle country, and my navigator pal, John, and I are bent over a road map in the only open pub in Hirschhorn, a village just down the Neckar River from Heidelberg. When I look up, every beer belly in the room is facing us. Our itinerary is apparently all wrong. So is our drink of choice. The pilsner we're imbibing is "for the frau," bellow the assemblage of rotund, mustached men, who hold tall, vaselike glasses of hefeweizen beer garnished with thin lemon slices. ... click for full article

From Lonely Planet
If you got your hipster magnet out in the middle of Prague, you would find yourself getting swiftly dragged to Vinohrady and its surrounds....click for full article