Travel Planning
for clinical pharma contractors

Travel Guides

Whether you need to research that new contract abroad or are simply looking for a break after that 12 month contract, travel guides are indispensable, particularly for the more far-flung places. Useful for recommendations on transport, local customs, local prices and places to stay. Many sites also have forums to quiz fellow travellers for up-to-date info.

Brochurebank www.brochures4me.com - Not strictly a guide series, but they are the UK's leading distributor of online brochures. You can order your brochures online for fee for all sorts of holidays - whether it’s a luxury item, a holiday abroad or something more practical for the home. At brochures4me.com you can browse what’s available and select what best suits your needs.

Catalink www.catalink.net - Not quite a trvel guide a la Lonely Planet, Catalink is the premier UK mail order Catalogue and brochure site, offering hundreds of the top UK Catalogues and Holiday Brochures - all on one site - all available for free.

jumboGo.co.uk www.jumbogo.co.uk - One of the leading shops for travel books, guides, maps and phrase books. You can find more than 16.000 titles from all major publishers at low prices! - jumboGo.co.uk offers books and maps from all well known publishers like e.g. Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Footprint, Cicerone, AA and many more at prices up to 30% lower than ordinary retail prices.

Holidays Uncovered Holiday Reviews www.holidays-uncovered.co.uk - One of the UKs leading Holiday Review Sites with over 100,000 reviews. Read before you buy!

Lonely Planet www.lonelyplanet.com - Is there anywhere left in the world that you can go to be lonely?  Probably the best and most popular global guide. Very useful forum to find out the best places to visit in outer Mongolia. Lonely Planet is passionate about bringing people together, about understanding our world, and about people sharing experiences that enrich everyone`s lives. They aim to inspire people to explore, have fun, and travel often. And LP strive to provide travellers everywhere with reliable, comprehensive and independent travel information.

Mydestinations.co.uk www.mydestinations.co.uk - Offering a one-stop shop for maps, guides and phrase books online. Outdoor activities are also catered for with information on cycling, walking, climbing and sailing holidays. Customers can browse and input their needs to come up with a wide range of information which should be more than enough for their needs, no matter where they are going. Marketing executive Liz Adams said: "We kept receiving requests for maps and information in different places and, rather than keep sending them away, we decided to set up this service. "Now we can pretty much cover every single destination in the world." The firm has built up a network of distributors and specialised suppliers and was able to draw on contacts with small companies not normally accessible to the general public.

Rough Guides www.roughguides.com - To smooth your travels. The Rough Guides all started out in an attempt for a student to avoid getting a job. Now it's a multi-million pound business and a very useable alternative to Lonely Planet.

Talking Trip www.talkingtrip.co.uk - TalkingTrip sell premier audio city guides. Their guides are similar to the highly popular audio guides in art galleries, except they guide you around some of the most visited cities in the world. The guides are downloadable onto iPods’, PSPs’, mobiles or mp3 players.

What’s on when www.whatsonwhen.com - World roundup for unusual events and activities. Find out what’s on before you book that trip.