Database Highlight #4: We've got the City for That
How can you build a better world without seeing it first? Take a virtual vacation with this week’s database highlight – A to Z World Travel.
The world is full of awe-inspiring places, and AtoZ World Travel can help you reach them. For travelers and knowledge seekers alike, AtoZ World Travel is a comprehensive travel resource with information about points of interest, security, transportation, food and recipes, culture, language, and more. With 202 World City Travel Guides covering over 67 topics each, plus an additional 56 travel resources, AtoZ World Travel TM provides the knowledge you need to experience the world and all its wonders.
A to Z World Travel is the perfect database for anyone looking for quick, necessary trip information like time zones, clothing sizes, government warnings, and more. Students doing reports on foreign cities will find a wealth of resources in sections on climate, food, and language – just to name few!
This week’s open site is travel.state.gov – the U.S. Department of State’s official travel homebase. Here you’ll find information on obtaining a visa/passport, travel alerts, and what you need to know before you travel.
Action Steps (pick one and respond in the comments):
- Pick a foreign city you’ve always wanted to visit, list the city and the type of currency used there
- What’s one historic site you might visit in Cape Town?
- Name one location with a current travel warning
Free atlases to the first 10 respondents!
- Log in to post comments
Comments
1. Edinburgh - Pound Sterling
2. One historic site is the Robben Island, where anti-apartheid activists were held.
3. North Korea has a current travel warning.
I went to Edinburgh on my own right after graduating high school! It was great.
Atlas coming your way.
I had a hard time logging in to A to Z world travel...any tips?
Hi Amy,
If you are on a library computer or the library's wifi you shouldn't have a log in prompt. I am able to go directly to it at my workstation and had no trouble going through remotely with my library card number and last name. Can you describe the problem you ran into?
One thing I can think of is if you are on wifi but didn't receive the prompt to accept the library's terms then it may not connect with the site. I know on iOS I have to call up the library's website on a mobile browser in order to connect and it drops the connection pretty quickly.
Hi Amy,
I had the same problem using the link above. I went to metrolibrary.org/research, clicked on A-Z, and that seemed to work!
Katherine
Thank you Katherine! The link is working for me (but let's be honest, I'm very special) so I may have to wait for Kellie to get back to try and figure out where I went wrong.
That worked! thanks!
Let's see...
1. Venice, Italy- European Union Euro
2. St. George's Cathedral is a historic location in Cape Town
3. There is a warning against US travel to The Republic of South Sudan
You said pick one but I thought it would be fun to do all three.
1. Tokyo - Yen
2. Castle of Good Hope, the oldest building in South Africa built sometime between 1666 and 1679.
3. There is a Travel Warning for the country of Jordan.
Tokyo is on my top 10 lists of places I want to visit! Cape Town is number 1 (in case you couldn't tell).
1. Jerusalem - New Israeli Shekel
2. St. George's Cathedral
3. Gaza Strip
Katherine's suggestion to go in through our databases instead of via the link is what worked...
with the link, it kept asking me to sign in, then denying me the ability to do so.
1. Auckland (New Zealand) - New Zealand Dollar
2. Slave Lodge
3. Monterrey (Mexico) has a current travel warning!
Nassau- Bahamian Dollar
Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
There is a travel warning for Colombia.
1.) Kolkata, India - Rupee
2.) Robben Island
3.) El Salvador has a travel warning, issued Feb. 14th, 2017