Travel
Health and Safety for Travellers
General Travel Sites
- Consular Affairs
Foreign Affairs Canada's website that offers information and assistance for Canadians travelling abroad. - Expedia Canada
Find everything here you need to plan a trip for business or pleasure - information on destinations, flights, hotels, vacation packages, cruises and maps. - Service Canada: Travel Services
Information about passports, consular services, health advisories and more for those planning to travel. - Travel Canoe
This Canadian site offers destination profiles, bed and breakfast listings, links to online reservations and much more. - Travelocity Canada
Use the 'best fare finder' and look at airline seat maps while making your travel reservations, then check out weather and currency conversions rates for your destination.
Travel Guides
- Frommer's Travel Guides
Look here for bargains and low cost travel alternatives, as well as a daily newsletter with. - Fodor's Travel Guides
This site acts as a gateway to online reservations at several other websites, as well as providing mini-guides to various locations. There are also discussion forums where travellers can ask questions and get advice or even just share their travel stories. - Lonely Planet Online
Just as their print guides do, this site provides information about your chosen destination - history, environment, activities, how to get around - that is truthful, authoritative and punk!. - Rough Guides
Up-to-the-minute details and commentary on thousands of destinations and travel-related happenings worldwide. The Rough Guides lead to smooth travel.
- Access to Travel
Information about accessible travel and transportation in Canada. - Bed & Breakfast Canada
Information on B & Bs all across Canada, with photographs. - The International Ecotourism Society: Travel Choice
Find out about ecotourism - 'responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of local people' and search for tour operators, hotels and other travel services. - Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel
High quality, affordable educational adventures for adults 55 and older. Also find out here about weather, currency conversion, passport concerns and maps. The Canadian section of this organization is now called Routes to Learning. - Hostels.com
A complete directory of hostels worldwide, plus tips on travelling light, links to travel deals and much more. - International Student Travel Confederation
Travel information, discounts available to students, youths and full-time teachers.
Health and safety for Travellers
- CDC Travelers' Health
Vital information for travellers on outbreaks of disease around the world, health information for specific destinations and lots of general medical advice for the traveller. - Travel Health from the Public Health Agency of Canada
Canada's travel health website with lists of travel clinics in Canada and health information for specific world destinations.
- Distance Calculator
Find out how far it is from one place to another and also see it on a map. - Flight Arrivals
Arrival and departure information for all commercial airline flights over Canada and the US. - Time Zone Converter
Currency conversion and foreign exchange information services for travellers, investors and businesses.
- Google Maps
Satellite images, maps, driving directions and distances. - MapQuest
As well as maps, find here handy features such as route planners and driving directions. - Perry Castaneda Map Library
This map collection at the University of Texas offers over 11,000 maps that may be viewed over the Internet. Most maps are free of copyright and may be downloaded and printed.