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• Winning on Betfair For Dummies

  Jack Houghton

  
  
   

• Internet-linked Book of London (Usborne City Guides)

  Moira Butterfield

  
  
   

• How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Floral and Florist Business Both Online and Off with CDROM (How to Open & Operate a ...)

  Stephanie Beener

  
  
   

• Frommer's Suzy Gershman's Where to Buy the Best of Everything: The Outspoken Guide for World Travelers and Online Shoppers (Where to Buy the Best of Everything)

  Suzy Gershman

  
  
   

• 101 Ways to Promote Your Tourism Business Web Site: Proven Internet Marketing Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Draw Travelers to Your Site: Proven Internet ... Your Site (101 Ways to Promote Your Web S)

  Susan Sweeney

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Travel Online - 2nd Edition

  Samantha Cook, Greg Ward

  
  
   

• Travel and Hospitality in Cyberspace: E-Commerce and E-Marketing in the 21st Century (E Commerce and Information Technology in Hospitality and Tourism)

  Zongqing Zho

  
  
   

• Internet Travel and Holidays for the Older Generation

  James Gatenby

  
  
   

• Colour Guide to Travel and Holidays (Silver Surfers) (Silver Surfers)

  Simon Veness, Susan Veness

  
  
   

• Second Life In-world Travel Guide (In World Travel Guide)

  Sean Percival

  
  
   

• Satellite Orbits: Models, Methods and Applications (Physics and astronomy online library): Models, Methods and Applications (Physics and astronomy online library)

  Oliver Montenbruck, Eberhard Gill

  
  
   

• Travel and Holidays on the Internet: The Amazing New World of Online Travel Services, Information, Prices, Reservations, Timetables, Bookings and More (Site finders)

  Graham Jones

  
  
   

• Internet Marketing in Hospitality (Neteffect Series)

  Barbara H. Cox, William Koelzer

  
  
   

• Cutting the Wire: Gaming Prohibition and the Internet (Gambling Studies): Gaming Prohibition and the Internet (Gambling Studies)

  David G. Schwartz

  
  
   

• Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

  Dave Gorman

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Internet Radio (Rough Guides Reference Titles)

  L.A. Heberlein

  
  
   

• A Course in Astral Travel and Dreams

  Belzebuub

  
  
   

• Online Diaries

  Ben Cooley

  
  
   

• The Traveler's Web: An Extreme Searchers Guide to Travel Resources on the Internet: An Extreme Searcher Guide to Travel Resources on the Internet

  R Hock

  
  
   

• The Virgin Internet Travel Guide: Version 2.0

  Davey Winder

  
  Do we need travel agents any more? Not according to The Virgin Internet Travel Guide. With the Internet has come "the opportunity for everybody, whether or not they have their own PC, to cut out the middleman and make their own travel bookings directly," writes author Davey Winder. His book, however, covers much more than holiday booking online. There are sections on finding general travel information (eg exchange rates or weather), activity holidays (eg cycling, whale-watching), luxury travel and resources for long-haul travellers like cyber cafe locations and Web discussion forums. The longest section is a country-by-country listing of sites with local information, ranging from government-sponsored sites to unofficial sites full of experienced travellers' tips.

  Following the fashion in Internet guides, the book is small--pocket-sized--but the listings are sufficiently detailed. There are 2-4 line reviews of most sites listed, which are informative if somewhat chirpy (here's the review of Virgin Atlantic's site: "A very snazzy, well very red actually, Web site--and excellent online booking and information resources"). The author has dug up sites with information on countries from Libya (a personal audio greeting from Colonel Qaddafi)to Micronesia. The first two sections cover Internet basics, which seems an unnecessary inclusion, since anyone seeking to learn to use the Internet has most likely already bought a beginners' guide. The lack of an index of sites makes looking up a specific travel site difficult. Still, there's a wealth of information here: travel agents beware.--Kathleen Keefe