The Internet offers a great alternative to printed guide for tourists. Offbeat Guides creates, personalizes, guides to more than 30,000 tourist sites, using search technology along with the recommendations of travel experts. When using them, you first enter the place you would want to go, then its location, name and date of travel. Offbeat Guides technology processes the data and find the best travel options for you, using all available data on the Internet from sites Wikitravel, Wikipedia, Yahoo Finance, AccuWeather, Google Maps and Eventful, combining them with ideas and information presented in the network of authors by topic and local residents. As a result, you have a small 100-page book-guide with a map, list of events and festivals, exchange rates, weather forecast, a little phrase book, consisting of key phrases in the language of the country where you are going and other information.
User further processes this information by removing unneeded parts. And the final version of the guidebook can be downloaded in PDF format for U.S. $ 9.95 or order a full-color printed version for 24.95 dollars.
Offbeat Guides was founded in San Francisco, but there are other sites: Virtual Tourist, Nile Project), Miss Information, who work in this niche and have similar business models.
The idea of personalized travel guides and plans can be implemented to all such Internet projects, travelers will only benefit.
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