SmarterTravel.com Introduces Travel Guides for Destinations Across the Globe

BOSTON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- SmarterTravel.com, a comprehensive online travel resource, today introduced their new Travel Guides, a virtual travel planning guidebook that provides extensive information on a variety of destinations throughout the world to help travelers with their trip planning process. The new guides offer information on cities and countries all over the globe, including North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and South America. Each guide includes five sections: When to Go covers seasonality and events that can affect travel plans; Getting To offers unbiased advice on finding the best airfare; Hotels covers local hotel listings; Getting Around provides transportation and car rental information; and Things to Do offers details on worthwhile activities. Travelers now have all the details they need for trip planning, no matter their destination, in one place.

The Travel Guides also include an easy-to-use destination finder search feature, which allows travelers to quickly access information on specific destinations. In support of the site's dedication to offering the most comprehensive travel information, SmarterTravel also recently launched a "Destination Watch" blog to offer the most up-to-date trends and advice on destinations across the globe.

"With the Travel Guides, we can offer travelers specific advice on destinations worldwide, including information on when to travel and what to expect," said Anne Banas, executive editor of SmarterTravel.com. "We wanted to bring all of the information on destinations that is typically found in disparate places into one place, so travelers have it at their fingertips."

The guides offer advice on navigating the destination, popular cities to visit and unbiased information on hotel, airfare and car rental deals that guidebooks don't regularly offer. These guides are being updated regularly with new content on countries and cities, and users can find advice and details to help in their travel decisions.

Additionally, SmarterTravel offers even more comprehensive information, with a focus on finding value, for a variety of popular cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Las Vegas. The popular destination guides give background on each city and offer advice on navigating the town, when to visit and any local quirks or 'need-to-know' information, especially if it helps to save travelers money.

"We are continually looking for ways to better provide travelers with up- to-date, comprehensive travel information," continued Banas. "Our Travel Guides provide coverage for every part of the globe, and we are looking forward to providing more destinations in the future, offering information on cities from San Diego to Shanghai."

The "Destination Watch" blog joins SmarterTravel's other blogs, "Ship to Shore" and "Today and Travel," to offer up-to-date advice and data on destinations all around the world as it happens. The new blog is written by SmarterTravel contributing editor Christine Sarkis, who will post news and information to the blog as it happens.

"Our goal is to provide the most relevant information to all our users, through blogs, special reports and the new destination guides," said Sarkis. "Readers can just click and find advice on cities they plan on visiting or check for news that might affect their travel plans."

SmarterTravel's Travel Guides are available at: http://www.smartertravel.com/destinations

The "Destination Watch" blog can be viewed at: http://www.smartertravel.com/blogs/destination-watch/

About SmarterTravel.com

SmarterTravel.com is the most comprehensive travel resource site available offering consumers up-to-date expert advice and information for their every travel need. Created by an unbiased team of dedicated journalists, the site's goal is to help travelers better manage every aspect of their travel experience by making researched, informed decisions. Unlike other online travel resources, SmarterTravel.com brings together all the best content in one place, giving consumers the tools they need to ensure a great travel experience.