New travel guides, from Lonely Planet to luxury (AP)
AP - Spring is the time when many travelers plan their biggest vacations of the year: Leisurely road trips, family getaways with kids out of school, and travel abroad over the peak summer season.
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Which is more useful, a guidebook or a travel app? (AP)
AP - A comprehensive travel guidebook can feel like a brick in your luggage. Yet smart phone travel guides are not always a good alternative. They can overwhelm users with potentially unreliable user-generated content or underwhelm them with a flashy interface and little true substance.
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Indonesian villages cashing in on ‘hobbit’ craze (AP)
AP - I started hearing the offers soon after arriving at the Liang Bua cave in the mountains of Flores island.
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Indonesian villages cashing in on ‘hobbit’ craze
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Interactive NYC tour themed on ‘Top Chef’ show (AP)
AP - Why take a walking tour inspired by a cable series you’ve never seen?
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Interactive NYC tour themed on ‘Top Chef’ show
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Review: Local advice from PocketSherpa iPhone app (AP)
AP - On the road, nothing really beats a good tip from a local on where to get the best ribs, catch a jazz show, or how to score tickets at a popular venue. Guide books invariably promise to give tourists the local scoop and routinely deliver mixed results.
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Review: Local advice from PocketSherpa iPhone app
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New tour at Frank Lloyd Wright synagogue in Pa. (AP)
AP - Did you hear the one about the rabbi and the architect?
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New tour at Frank Lloyd Wright synagogue in Pa.
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Travel books worth giving both classic and new (AP)
AP - Whether you’re looking for a gift for an armchair traveler or a frequent flyer, you can’t go wrong with a book.
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Travel books worth giving both classic and new
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Unusual tours give view of Paris’ hidden corners (AP)
AP - You’ve posed for a picture in front of the Eiffel Tower, checked out the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and walked to the top of the Arc de Triomphe.
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Unusual tours give view of Paris’ hidden corners
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Tour keeps spirit of Raymond Chandler’s LA alive (AP)
AP - The thought hit as soon as the bus pulled up: “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country.
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Tour keeps spirit of Raymond Chandler’s LA alive
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Angels & Demons in Rome: Tour book and movie sites (AP)
AP - On the stone steps of the 500-year-old Santa Maria del Popolo church, our tour group huddled around our guide in a tight circle.
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Angels & Demons in Rome: Tour book and movie sites
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