Most of the country-specific sites will provide links to information about individual cities, but the information may be fairly brief and in some cases will just cover the larger cities in the country. The general guides (Fodor’s, Frommer’s, Lonely Planet, and Rough Guides) will have fairly extensive information on many cities, but even some large cities may be missing. But it is easy to quickly find sites with extensive detail on just about any city that interests you. Using a search engine is one easy way to find a city’s Web site. For example, if you search for Paris in Yahoo!, among the very first sites that come up are the Paris Tourist Office, The Paris Pages/Les Pages de Paris, and City of Paris, all of which are excellent starting places for a traveler. Above the listing of these search results on Yahoo!, you will also find a link to Yahoo!’s own Paris Visitor Guide. Google (and other search engines) may produce similar results, but without the Visitor Guide link. The search engine approach works well for medium-size cities such as Aberystwyth, and you will often get good results from a search engine if you are looking for a Jindabyne, Kamloops, or Khon Khen. If you don’t find what you are looking for, be more specific as to the location or by adding the word “guide” (e.g. Cleveland Ohio guide). There are also some excellent sites that provide guides specifically for cities. Among these are AreaGuides.net and the City Guide portion of Yahoo! In addition, there are sites for particular countries that contain city guides. You will find many additional sites on the Web that contain very similar content, especially a large number of city business directory sites. A number of sites feature similar information, and even similar design, to the ones mentioned here. For example, USA Citylink (www.usacitylink.com) contains information almost identical to Area Gudies.net (and even carries the AreaGuides.net logo).
