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Hello! I bring to your attention my author's selection of useful services for travelers. Most of the sites and applications from this list have been tested by us personally, something else is waiting in line, but does not become less cool from this. Of course, the list can be continued forever, but in my opinion below is a solid base for bright, strong, inexpensive and enjoyable trips.

Travel preparation

Buses in Europe

fifteen. . International bus lines that run between the 21st country and 205 cities in Europe. It is the largest and oldest carrier in Eastern Europe. For independent European trips Ecolines is ideal, because Flights are very inexpensive and buses are comfortable. In addition, Ecolines has an accumulative bonus system, and with active travel you can get free trips. This is more than real! Personally, for three trips I accumulated bonuses for one practically free move.

16. . Another European carrier that is amazing with constant promotions and discounts on tickets. For example, from St. Petersburg to Helsinki and Tallinn very often you can leave for 400-500 rubles. The number of routes for Lyukspress is much less than for Ecolines - only 10 countries, but sometimes the prices are just symbolic, and the buses are more like a business class aircraft.

Train tickets

17. Once it was a discovery for me, and then it became a constant practice to buy train tickets online. As it turned out, this can easily be done on the site. Yes, the interface is not the most convenient in the world, but it is a million times more pleasant than standing in endless lines at the ticket office. An electronic ticket is printed and presented upon boarding the wagon. It is simple, fast, and in addition, allows you to choose your own flights and seats in the car. By the way, today Russian Railways provides 100 international routes in 30 countries of Europe and Asia.

18. . Search engine for air and train tickets in Russia. Convenient in the first place with a complete and current schedule of commuter trains.

19. . A service that combines maps, schedules and fares of more than 50 different railway companies throughout Europe. It is easy to book train tickets on the site, as well as hotels and travel programs. From the fun site, there is an encyclopedia of European trains explaining how they differ from each other and how interesting it is to spend time on the way. For travelers, a large company provides discounts - both on trains and in cities.

Cruises and boat trips

20. . A site where you can select and book a sea or river cruise around the world. The service unites all the largest world and Russian cruise companies, reports on special offers and discounts.

Car rent

21.. The leading website for car rental abroad. Reservation is possible in more than 800 car rental companies in 150 countries. 20 thousand car rental points, a Russian-speaking support service, low prices and high quality services made this service an absolute market leader.

Transfer

22.. If you do not want to rent a car, but public transport does not suit you, you can pre-order yourself a suitable transfer from point A to point B. How does it work? You find the desired route in cities and resorts around the world, make an online transfer booking, the driver meets you with the name on the plate and takes you to your place. The service operates in 65 countries.

23.. A service that is gaining international popularity for ordering a driver and searching for passengers. A convenient mobile application allows you to search, call and pay for taxis or private drivers. The application is available for dozens of cities around the world, including in Russia. Using the Uber application, the customer reserves a car with a driver and monitors its movement to a specified point, payment is made using credit card information.

Search for travel companions

24.. Another world leader. A service that unites drivers and companions around the world. Just enter the city of departure, arrival and date to see a list of drivers who offer trips along your route and choose your own. Before contacting, you can see the driver profile with a photo, brief information about yourself and reviews. The service itself is free, but drivers usually charge money for gas. Is not !

25.. The site was created in order to enable you to find a travel companion on vacation or on any other trip, starting from a trip to a neighboring city and ending with a hitchhiking trip around the world.

Housing

26.. A well-known site on which ads from individuals - owners of apartments and houses are presented. Today it is so popular that I will not even advise any analogue, because I think that all landlords already have pages on airbnb, even if they previously preferred some other resource. I wrote two articles about this site. This is a really cool resource that allows you to find beautiful apartments abroad.

27.. The largest world site for searching and booking hotels and hostels. A huge database of options, honest reviews, good prices, excellent customer support - this is why so many people choose it. This site is good if you are planning a trip to Europe, North and Latin America, Australia.

28. If you want to find a good option for accommodation in the territory of the former USSR, here the search engine is out of competition.

29. For Asia, it is best to look for hotels on.

30. An excellent hostel database is available on the site.

31.. House Exchange. The database on the site contains more than 65 thousand real houses in 150 countries of the world. If you have your own home, you can exchange your homes with property owners from another country during your vacation. The service has existed since 1992 when it all started with a book directory of people wishing to exchange houses.

32. Well, and, of course, adored by all travelers (and us, too). A site where you can find free housing and great company in an unfamiliar city.

Online travel agencies

33. One of the most reliable services for finding travel offers, buying tickets, booking hotels and renting cars. The site works with hundreds of sites of travel agencies and airlines around the world and selects the most profitable deals for customers. At the same time, Kayak redirects directly to the reservation pages of service providers

34.. About the same as Kayak. True, there are only airline tickets and hotels. Has a cool bonus program. For me, the site is not much different from others by the ticket search engine, but the number of friends who are ardent adherents of this site is so great that it was provided with a place in this list.

35.. An international travel site that allows you to quickly and easily organize your trip yourself. On it you can find a whole set of free tools for the competent search for cheap air tickets, hotels and housing for rent, as well as rental cars.

36.. The Russian analogue of the above sites. Winner of many travel awards in the field of online services. Worthy of attention.

Organized tours

37.. If you need an organized tour, and independent trips are tired of the end, then the best way to find a great tour is the Level Travel tour finder. The service searches all leading tour operators and allows you to book tours directly with them, without the participation of travel agencies. Those. you will not see any extra charges, and the tour will cost as much as the operator. Too cool to be true, but it's not a dream))

38.. Online hypermarket tours. The best prices from 120 reliable tour operators.

City Maps

39.. Free application for phones on any platform. We use only these cards, and they are just beautiful! After installing the application, you need to upload a map of the country that you need, and then the map with all the signs, attractions, hotels, hostels, restaurants will work offline! If your phone supports GPS, then when combined with maps.me, you can forget about awkward communication in crooked French / Chinese / Portuguese trying to figure out exactly where to get off the bus and how to find the museum.

Interpreter

40. Google translator as an application for or helps you find a common language with foreigners without any problems. In offline mode, more than 90 languages \u200b\u200bare supported, though you need to download the necessary language packs in advance. This translator saved us more than once, but, of course, the translation of phrases is far from always ideal.

Leisure and entertainment

41.. Geocaching is a worldwide tourism game, the essence of which is to hide and search for treasures. Geocaching has existed for 15 years and unites more than 6 million people from around the globe. Today, 2.5 million caches are hidden in 200 countries, and every day their number is growing. This is a great way to have fun, find unusual places in a new city, and meet curious people.

42.. Service, which contains a large and high-quality, and most importantly free collection of audio guides to cities and museums. Before the trip, you can install the izi.travel application on your smartphone and enjoy excursions from professional guides, as well as amateurs. Some content on the site is paid.

43.. A site designed for booking Russian-language excursions around the world. Today it offers 4088 excursions in 566 cities of the world.

44.. "His people around the world." The service carries out two large projects: unique excursions from local residents and the international community of travelers, which is presented in the form of a giant forum with questions and answers about any city on the planet. If you absolutely do not know what to do in the city, ask a question on this forum and get recommendations from local people.

45.. A site that forms an individual guide for you to the most interesting places of the selected city. You choose interesting sights, and the service compiles a detailed guide with maps and descriptions, which you can print or download to your mobile device and use offline. And all this for free!

Free Travel Software

46.. The leading site in the search for volunteer work abroad. Volunteering means an extremely wide range of tasks: from teaching English (for example) to building a farm, from working in a hostel to caring for the elderly. As a “salary” for their work, volunteers receive housing, food, interesting communication, immersion in the culture of the country, and often other bonuses (discounts on excursions, participation in workshops, etc.) Transport must be paid for independently.

47. European Volunteer Service. The EVS has dozens of programs lasting from 2 to 12 months. All of them are funded by the European Commission, and programs can be both inside and outside the European Union. These projects, as a rule, have a social orientation and are designed for young people aged 18 to 30 years. The candidate is required to possess certain skills, the level of a foreign language, sometimes, the availability of special education. The European Commission, in turn, covers the costs of accommodation, meals, transportation, insurance, daily expenses, a training cycle, including language courses and 90% of the cost of the flight.

48.. STP are study visits to Poland for students, young professionals and professionals from Eastern European countries (North-Western region of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova). The program is divided into two large blocks - for students (from 18 to 21 years old) and for workers (without age restrictions). The trip is completely free: participants are paid for the road, accommodation, meals, all activities within the framework of the visit, as well as visa processing.

Other

49.. If this is your first time hitchhiking, this tutorial has absolutely everything.

fifty. . A project whose goal is to create a free, free, up-to-date and reliable global travel guide. Currently there are 1,657 travel guides in Russian and other articles written and edited by Wikitravel travelers from all over the world.

And a bonus, final link. A site that has collected sooooo many (more than three hundred!) Various travel resources: top LiveJournal, sites, VKontakte communities, independent blogs, magazines, TV channels, television programs, hotel search engines, maps, forums, train tickets, language tourism, exotic tourism, extreme tourism, visas, rental housing, guides, tour operators, cruises, diving, car rental, airline tickets, insurance, youtube travel channels, travel blogs on Instagram.

Friends, I understand perfectly that all the cool services did not fit in this post! Therefore, this topic will be continued. Please share in the comments really useful, high-quality and interesting sites / applications / online companies / programs for travelers. I will definitely include your cool links in the next article!

I hope you find something useful here!

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At the present stage of development, the application of the Internet in the activities of the vast majority of domestic enterprises has become an integral component of their effective functioning in the market.

Internet technologies have covered almost all levels of management of a modern enterprise, which in turn helps to reduce the duration of individual cycles of the business process and directly allows you to maximize meet the expectations of the enterprise in economic benefits.

One of the sectors of entrepreneurial activity where Internet technologies are most actively used is the tourism industry.

Modern Internet technologies have covered almost all areas of tourism enterprises, since Internet marketing and electronic PR are constantly developing, website capabilities are expanding, and forms of enterprise participation in Internet exhibitions are improving. However, the use of modern tools of Internet technologies is not limited to the development and implementation of a functional website, since the constant development of this type of information technology allows updating the activities of a tourism company based on advanced technologies.

Internet marketing technologies, as one of the types of communication communication with consumers, are gaining special development. Hence, we can argue that one of the priorities of modern Internet marketing is to register the profile of a travel company in social networks.

http://twitter.com - 48.7

http://www.facebook.com - 90.8

http://www.myspace.com - 19.6

http://my.mail.ru - 51.1

http://vk.com - 94.6

http://odnoklassniki.ru - 62.9

The development of social networks in recent years has been rather accelerated and has caused the emergence of a large number of social networks - analogues. However, despite this, there are social networks that bring together many millions and even billions of users around the world. Such leaders are facebook.com, vk.com, odnoklasniki.ru.

All users have the opportunity to exchange information regardless of location, only the availability of access to the Internet remains a prerequisite.

According to this, tourism enterprises should focus on a wide audience of consumers to ensure constant demand for their own tourism products, so it is advisable to create profiles of tourism enterprises in the above social networks. However, the presence of a travel company profile in a particular social network is only the first step to the effective use of this Internet technology tool

The list of events is relevant for use by tourism enterprises, since registration on a social network and the implementation of all the above events is absolutely free.

Creating a profile in a social network is a certain prototype of the website of a tourism company, however this profile does not require periodic maintenance and significant costs, since updating and updating of information can be carried out by one executor.

The presence of a profile of a tourism company in a particular social network does not reduce the need to develop and implement its own website, since it is the latter that is the primary source of obtaining the necessary information for the consumer.

• Sergey Dolya is one of the most interesting people who has long been loved by fans of virtual travel. On the main page there is a list of visited countries with reports.
• Ilya Varlamov - has an original hairstyle and the same approach to writing reports on visited countries. The blog consists of various sections, including criticism of Russian cities, visits to other countries and some interesting notes about urbanization.
• Alexander Cheban - more than 55 countries visited.
• Sergey Vitko is a traveler who never plans which country he will fly to next time and what he will write about it.
• Eduard Hawailer is our compatriot who now lives in Germany. Often visits small European cities.
• Alexander Belenky is a relatively young blogger (since 2011). Publishes reports on travels, countries and cities.
• Arthur Shigapov - writes posts about residents of different countries. Interesting notes, easy to read, no analytical articles or policies.
• Kitya Karlson - lives in Japan, but travels around the world. His blog is notes about ordinary things that happen among us.
• Petr Lovigin is an artist who originally draws up his travel reports.
• Fedor Konyukhov is a traveler priest, the most famous bearded man of the Russian land.
• Olga Kostyuk is a girl who has visited many Asian countries, including India.
• Elena Bass - writes about Italy and European cities. He works as a guide.
• Paul - lives in Germany. He writes mainly about European cities.
• Julia Buruleva - traveler, photographer, party organizer.
• kuzulka - awesome instagram photos. The blog is designed for a female audience.
• Vlad Karavaev - interesting reports from Russia and neighboring countries.
• Alexander Savchenko - traveled all over our vast country, visited China and the Philippines.
• Alexey Nasedkin is an illustrated virtual travel magazine.
• Ivan Dementievsky is a journalist who travels mainly in Russian latitudes.
• Dmitry Malov - traveled to many countries, described many rare and exotic places.
• bravebeaver - travel notes.
• Denis Frantsuzov - travels in Russia on an all-wheel drive SUV. Prefers abandoned places.
• Vadim Nardin - likes to travel a lot and photograph girls in these wanderings.
• AL-31F - writes a lot on various topics, travels frequently, and only happens in interesting places.
• Dmitry Islentiev is a married couple who shares their impressions with readers.
• Ashblacklad is a professional photographer, a lover of nature and cozy towns.
• Alexander Chernykh is a professional blogger who publishes notes from different countries.
• Igor Vinogradov - travels to exotic places and talks about the life of their inhabitants.
• Sergey Nagorny - conducts a video blog, takes reviews of different countries.
• Alexey Pevnev is a Kaliningrad blogger who publishes fascinating travel reports.
• Enia Kulish - a lot of interesting things about different countries, there are good posts about diving.