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NZ Tourist Information – Check out Online Travel Reviews

February 27, 2011 By jotravel Leave a Comment

Article by Cymen Crick

One of the hardest parts of planning an overseas trip is knowing where all the best places to stay are. Finding New Zealand tourist information is no different. Sure you can buy a guidebook, and follow it to the letter, you can book a 12 day whistle stop tour and blast your way through the country so fast you can barely breathe, or maybe you could even blindfold yourself, step onto a giant map of New Zealand, and write down all the places you walk over as you stumble from one end of the living room to the other, but who knows if you are getting to see the best parts New Zealand has to offer?



What if the guidebook is out of date? It is often only written by a small group of people who got free accommodation to write a great review. It’s hardly impartial is it? And that tour can look great on paper, but what is it really like? As for the blindfold and the map idea, you might end up with a headache bigger than the one you got when you tripped over the coffee table while you did your map walking thing. Who knows where to stay? Where to go? What to see?



So where can you go to find the New Zealand tourist information you need? Like anything, finding real people to talk to helps. If people just like you have found a cool spot that had the most amazing views, the campground with the best amenities, the tours that gave the best value for money, surely you’d want them to tell you all about it right?



Getting the personal touch of experience stamped all over your NZ tourist information can help you cut out a lot of time and energy selecting the places and events that fit your personality the most. You can find out from a wide range of people whether a place lives up to other tourists expectations without having to plough through all that confusing marketing speak.



If you are looking for independent NZ tourist information look online for places that have honest and fair critiques that come from tourists just like you. There are many reputable and trusted online travel review websites available, which not only offer travellers opinions, but also interactive forums that you can participate in. Post comments and receive firsthand experience and travel advice from other tourists about various New Zealand regions, activities and attractions. It will help you have a holiday to remember for all the right reasons.

About the Author

Cymen Crick is co owner of
www.rankers.co.nz and has been working within the New Zealand tourism industry for over fifteen years.
He began his tourism career by starting Kaiteriteri Kayaks in the Abel Tasman National Park during 1994.

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Watch Out For Tourist Information When Visiting San Diego

February 27, 2011 By jotravel Leave a Comment

Article by Mike Selvon

San Diego is a beautiful and cosmopolitan city that has a strong personality. It is livened up with some very evident multi-cultural influences, and has many Mexican touches and flares.

All of this combined, and so much more, has helped to make the San Diego area one of the top tourist destinations in California and there is a great deal of tourist information available to help visitors make the most of their stay in “America’s Finest City.”

When perusing through the extensive tourist info that is available about the San Diego region, it is easy to understand why San Diego has taken on the nickname of “America’s Finest City.” The fact is readily evident that San Diego has something for everyone. Some of the most popular and well-known attractions are the world-famous San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Par, LegoLand, SeaWorld, Balboa Park and the Birch Aquarium, just to name a few.

In addition, there is extensive tourist information available about the other activities around the San Diego area that are popular for those enjoying vacation travel in the area. Some of these activities include harbor cruises, whale watching, riding the trolley into Tiajuana, soaking in the ambiance of Old Town, and shopping at Horton Plaza or Seaport Village.

Because there is so much to do and so many places to see when traveling to San Diego, it is a good idea to pick up travel guides that are available from the San Diego tourist info booths. If you don’t want to go and find one of these informational booths, then most of the local area hotels will also have a nice selection of tourist info and travel guide pamphlets. Collect a few of these and spend some time looking through them so that you can map out each day of your trip.

When you take some time to review the tourist info that is available you will undoubtedly be able to get more from your trip overall than if you don’t have a good plan. By looking up each of the tourist attraction locations on the maps that are included in most of the travel guides, you will see which attractions are nearby to another one and this will allow you to get from one to the other quickly, thus helping to avoid running from one part of town to the other.

Almost all of the tourist guides for the San Diego area will include advertisements, and sometimes even coupons for the special “Best Attraction Pass” that is available. By purchasing this pass, you will have free access to more than 55 different tourist attractions and activities that you would otherwise need to pay for in order to visit.

This pass gives you a great deal of flexibility and allows you to visit as many of these attractions as you have time for. You can choose a one-day pass or from various multi-day pass options.

To maximize the savings that you get with the “Best Attraction Pass,” keep an eye out for vacation packages that include the passes bundled with hotel and air arrangements. Most places that provide detailed tourist information will also have links to some great packaged vacation deals that will help you make the most of your time and money.

About the Author

Mike Selvon portal offers free articles on vacation rentals. Find out more about tourist information, and leave a comment at the travel and tourism blog.

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Free Tourist Information – An Internet Business Opportunity?

February 27, 2011 By jotravel Leave a Comment

Article by Traveller

Free Tourist Information – An Internet Business Opportunity?


There has always been a demand for free tourist information. With the advent of cheap air travel and holiday package deals in the late 70′s world air travel volumes increased sharply. Of course all these tourists had little idea about their destinations other than they would most likely be sunny and welcome visitors. Of course for the most part these expectations were correct and the tourist industry boomed for a very long time.


Now in the 21st century air travel is no longer a novelty and many foreign destinations are now commonplace holiday spots. Despite this the quest for accurate and useful tourist information remains. The reason for this is the same as it ever was; no sensible person wants to travel into an unknown area without learning at least a little about local customs and attraction spots.


No one can give tourist information like a local. Often a chance meeting in a local bar or restaurant will grant information that can save money or grant access to facility that is poorly advertised and known only to the local population. For the most part, unless the individual is a business owner, they will have little interest in putting any information up on a website even though it might be of great use to other people looking to visit the area. What is needed is a website that can collect the information that many people would supply, just to be helpful to visitors to their area.


Like many good ideas, this idea has already been implemented by a number of websites on the internet. The most notable of these types of site that will supply free tourist information is a website called lonelyplanet.com. Here the site allows users to comment on the information supplied as well as add information about the various areas discussed themselves. Thus, the skills of a professional web design team is harnessed, along with excellent local knowledge, to the benefit of any number of world travellers.


Of course if the market was already sewn up then there would be little point in talking about it at all. Thankfully this is far from being the case. Despite the size of these types of websites, the world is a much bigger place! There is therefore ample space for a small niche competitor to carve out their slice of the market.
For a one man operation, the best place to start is an area that you live in, or nearby to, or maybe an area that you spent a lot of time in and know well. Writing about your local area can provide information that strangers would welcome and can earn you a small regular income if you allow advertising on your website. Even if you know little or nothing about web design you can still do this successfully through free blog sites like blogger.com.


I wish you good luck in your new activities, may you help others and profit from so doing.

About the Author

Traveller is the pen name of an avid blogger and world traveller. Under this name he seeks to give free tourist information about his local area in North West England. His new website is at http://freetouristinformation.com

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