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While popular travel websites including Bestfares.com, Travelzoo.com, Priceline.com, and Expedia.com feature a travel planning component, they are geared more toward the booking of travel by air, land, and sea. But if you're planning to take a trip and you'd like to learn more about exotic destinations and fun places to see around the globe, you'd benefit from travel planning and information websites geared toward finding you the best places for some rest, relaxation, and recreation.

In this article, you'll discover five amazing and highly informative travel planning and information websites you'll want to check out before your next vacation.

Travelocity's Experience Finder
Travelocity put together a really hip, cool interactive vacation planning tool that allows you to plan by destination or theme: Travelocity Experience Finder. When you're done, you can go back to Travelocity.com and book your travel (or at least Travelocity hopes that's what you'll do).

Fodors.com
Also made famous for its diverse line of travel guides, Fodors.com brings you a wealth of travel information at your fingertips. Plan your trip using the interactive map. Get in on the latest airfare, cruise, and hotel deals. Read travel stories. Be sure to read Fodors.com's travel talk forums and get expert travel advice. And if you need Fodor's paper travel guides to take with you on your journey, you can purchase them via the bookstore.

Frommers.com
Made famous for their travel guides, Frommers.com provides you with a highly informative website where you can search worldwide destinations, get in on the best deals, view trip ideas, book a vacation, and view members' travel photos. Be sure to visit Frommers.com's Community Forums where you can discuss travel-related information with others. Also be sure to sign up for Frommers' e-mail newsletters and add Frommers.com to your list of RSS feeds.

Conde Nast Traveler's Concierge.com
Thumbs up to Concierge.com's sleek, sexy, media-rich user interface. Explore the best restaurants, activities, and hotels using the interactive world map. View photos and videos of beautiful destinations. Search by interests and ideas; or make use of tools such as map searches and weather forecasts. Concierge.com also offers a social networking travel community called MyConcierge that allows readers to share travel-related information. Be sure to grab Concierge.com's RSS feeds for instant information on the latest deals and travel information.

Travel and Leisure Magazine Online
Travel and Leisure Magazine's online version is just as informative on the Web as it is in print. View global destinations; find hotels and restaurants; read reviews; get in on hot deals; and see the World's Best Awards in hotels, islands, cruise lines, and cities. Be sure to sign up for T + L's e-mail newsletters to receive up-to-the-minute information on hot deals.

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