1° Destination
Introduction
To find information effectively on Your destination, there are five types of separate information sources on the Internet, each requiring a different research methodology.
The country sheets
To compile as much information as possible, it is important to collect the maximum sheets on the country concerned from rough travel guides or encyclopedic. You'll find information more or less wealthy as services.
The travel diaries
Each travel surfer takes pleasure in his personal pages on his trip.
The notebooks are real gold mines, a unique experience, reported with sincerity and above all without hype. News is more "real" than those portals or agencies whose aim is to show you often rose facet of the trip.
You can find notebooks in three ways:
- Either by direct research in directories and search engines
- Either by searching directories of travel diaries
- Either by research in the personal pages of the main free hosting blogs like Wordpress or Blogger.
The portals
The portals are mega or general thematic sites supposed to give you anything you might need, without getting lost in the jungle of the net.
However, these portals have all now adventure travel sections, where one can draw certain types of information.
Sometimes most of them are like a catalogue of a travel agency full of commercial requests, but sometimes there is good news and good links.
There are also specialized portals, which often have the chance to give users the ability to write travel diaries.
The directories and search engines
It’s not easy to find the correct information. These are the Internet tools above all others that better represent a valid alternative to travel agencies.
There are also specific engines on travel, and more often travel diaries …
Official tourism boards
The most serious and formal reference. Indispensable to see if you have time to plan your trip.
2°Organization
Baggage
As well as the elementary considerations of security, the main practical information about regulating weights and volumes of luggage in air transport.
Payment on the Net
- More than half of Internet users are afraid to pay on-line using credit cards.
- Yet the risks are limited, and you have recourse in the event of problems.
- During an on-line payments, most of the payment systems use a system called "secure". You should know that security is particularly effective and the risk of piracy is near to zero.
- All this to say that it is better to order from a serious company.
Exchange Rates
On the net, it is easy to find addresses of sites offering instant and accurate calculation of the exchange rate of all currencies worldwide.
Time Zone
There is everything on the net, especially in English.
Broadly speaking, you have to know that "roughly" the movement on the North-South axis, do little or nothing on time zone hours. The movement on the East-West lead to offset an hour by 1000 km beneath our attitude (estimated, just to give an idea).
Moving west, we follow the sun, so we "slowed" the time where we are (in the aircraft for example), and so, it gets tired more quickly because the day of travel east longer. Specifically, delaying the arrival of 1, 2 or more hours. Before leaving, be aware that it is "early" to meet one that welcomes you at the airport.
Conversely by going east, we are going to meet the sun, so we "accelerate" the time where we are (in the aircraft for example), and so, it is because Travel seems shorter. Specifically, it shows its advance to the arrival of 1, 2 or more hours. Before leaving, be aware that it is "later" to meet that you welcome at the airport.
Weather and climate
It is not the important to know the weather in the sense that we understand it is foreseeable that 2 or 3 days with a relative precision.
What counts is to know the climate of a country when you travel. The best thing to search for is a climate chart.
One joy of the Internet when preparing a trip is to be able to "see" the weather there, and for this, "webcams" is sympathy.
3° Security
Medical Safety
Before anything else, consult your doctor.
For the net, you will find two types:
- The practical information about health in the country to visit,
- The sites on deepening disease.
Responsibilities
As for health, term insurance, the best interlocutor is your insurer (beware of the information on the net).
If you are unsure of information given by your insurer, consult a broker (and not a general agent) who will be pleased to tell you of a competitive manner (according to your request, it will choose the best of its suppliers of products 'insurance).
On the net, there are formulas like "special travel" that are generally expensive.
Legal
On the incidents that may occur in travel, you now have the opportunity to go against the travel company.
