Alternative Travel Directory : The Complete Guide to Traveling, Studying, and Living Overseas

Whether volunteering to conserve native species in Australia, learning German in Berlin or Spanish in Antigua, bicycling across Africa, or cooking in Thailand, Americans of all ages and in record number are choosing to fulfill their travel dreams independently. Now there is a brand-new Millennium Edition of the only comprehensive publication for independent travelers.

Produced by the editors of Transitions Abroad, the nations leading magazine on specialized travel outside the U.S., the Alternative Travel Directory is a collection of thousands of resources and programs for travelers who like to customize their overseas vacations to suit their own special interests.

The sixth edition of the Alternative Travel Directory contains the editors collection of the best opportunities for independent international travel and includes dates, prices, and contact information. Firsthand reports cover everything from airfare bargains and rail travel tips from Rick Steves to planning a language vacation anywhere in the world. The book also features entire sections are devoted to study abroad and living abroad, as well as retirement opportunities!

The Alternative Travel Directory selects and reviews the best guidebooks and planning resources for all types of travel and provides suggestions for and details on hundreds of unique travel opportunities like studying native art in Bali, cooking in a Tuscan villa, helping to preserve a rainforest, learning French in a chteau, or bicycling through Ireland. Separate chapters cover travel for seniors, and for the disabled, traveling with children, and responsible travel.

Transitions Abroad magazine has been the countrys number one authority for the nuts and bolts of independent travel and living abroad for 23 years. It has been praised by travel gurus like Arthur Frommer and Rick Steves, and is regularly cited in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. The word is out! Alternative travel is in!

Preface to the Sixth Edition

The Alternative Travel Directory, produced by the editors of Transitions Abroad magazine annually since 1993, is a one-volume selection of the most essential practical information on the overseas alternatives to "packaged" tourism: independent travel, ecotravel, educational travel and study, and living overseas. Opportunities for working overseas, along with a selection of placement and training programs, are collected separately in the biannual Work Abroad: The Complete Guide to Finding a Job Overseas. (Also available on Amazon.com.)

The growth in the number and variety of listings in each new volume of the Alternative Travel Directory indicates a burgeoning interest in avoiding the international tourist trails and traps that tend to isolate travelers from the people and culture of the host country. Readers of Transitions Abroad magazine are among the growing number of visitors to other countries who recognize the enormous rewards that come from seeing the world up close and from the hosts' perspective.

For a variety of reasons, our readers are spending longer periods of time abroad. Some go as working travelers, who pay for their extended journeys with short-term jobs. Others go abroad to find more permanent positions in the new global economy. Everyone from diplomats to students preparing to spend a year in Europe will benefit from the wealth of tools for overseas travel, study, and living found in the Alternative Travel Directory.

To stay up to date on all the latest practical information on work, study, independent travel, and living abroad subscribe to Transitions Abroad magazine. For an examination copy call 800-293-0373 or visit our continuously updated web site, where you can also sign-up for our free email newsletter, TA eNews.