Tourist Information - Check Out Online Travel Reviews

One of the hardest parts of planning an overseas trip is knowing where all the best places to stay are. Finding New Zealand tourist information is no different. Sure you can buy a guidebook, and follow it to the letter, you can book a 12 day whistle stop tour and blast your way through the country so fast you can barely breathe, or maybe you could even blindfold yourself, step onto a giant map of New Zealand, and write down all the places you walk over as you stumble from one end of the living room to the other, but who knows if you are getting to see the best parts New Zealand has to offer?

What if the guidebook is out of date? It is often only written by a small group of people who got free accommodation to write a great review. It's hardly impartial is it? And that tour can look great on paper, but what is it really like? As for the blindfold and the map idea, you might end up with a headache bigger than the one you got when you tripped over the coffee table while you did your map walking thing. Who knows where to stay? Where to go? What to see?

So where can you go to find the New Zealand tourist information you need? Like anything, finding real people to talk to helps. If people just like you have found a cool spot that had the most amazing views, the campground with the best amenities, the tours that gave the best value for money, surely you'd want them to tell you all about it right?

Getting the personal touch of experience stamped all over your NZ tourist information can help you cut out a lot of time and energy selecting the places and events that fit your personality the most. You can find out from a wide range of people whether a place lives up to other tourists expectations without having to plough through all that confusing marketing speak.

My Experience With Reading Travel Reviews to Book My Hotel

In anticipation of an upcoming trip to Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) I was on the search for accommodation. With so many options to choose from - bed & breakfast, motels, lodges, serviced apartments and hotels (to name a few) - I eventually decided to choose Auckland hotel accommodation. Now my issue went from: What kind of accommodation do I want to stay in? to: Which provider do I choose?

It's fair to say that had I booked my trip through a travel agent they may well have been able to suggest the right provider for me, but in this day and age of online travel bookings, I had no need to talk to a travel agent. So keeping in line with my online flight bookings, I decided to book my accommodation online too. First though I decided to find out what other people were saying about Auckland hotels, to see if anyone had some good suggestions for me.

I've heard all this talk about user reviews becoming more and more popular in today's online environment, and I can now see why. It's much like talking to your family or friends and asking if they can recommend somewhere to stay, but in this event you have access to a wider range of opinions. The other advantage is that the feedback which is posted on the site is no longer filtered by the providers so that you only read good reviews, instead they are a much more transparent and honest assessment of the hotel.

What to Write in Travel Articles

Many journalists love to write travel articles because writing those means getting the chance of visiting different beautiful places and that also for free. That it is a dream job of many writers to write travel articles. The things one should keep in mind while writing travel article:

The market of travel writing is quite competitive. There is not a place in this world that has not been written about. Each place in this world has a number of travel reviews. So it is important to write something different than the other writers. You have to keep in mind that you have to write something so that your article stands out among the thousands of articles. Try to think about something that might not have been written no matter how small that is. It may be a local custom or a regional festival or a special cuisine. Include this kind of small but interesting details so that readers are attracted and choose your article among the others.

If you are writing for a travel company you have to write in a very positive way about a place. You have to over hype that place in order to attract readers and encourage them to buy a deal with your travel company. But if you are not writing it for a travel company but a travel magazine or as a newspaper article you do not have to absolutely positive. You should obviously write the pros of a place but you should write the cons of that place. This will make your article more genuine. And to make your travels articles authentic you should rely only on firsthand eyewitness and not on travel guide books because you should remember travelers have already read everything there is on the travel guide and travel brochures.