Asia-Pasific Travel Resources
China
news
- South China Morning Post. Hong Kong's leading English language newspaper site. Comprehensive local and international news.
- China Newsnetworks. Links to national newspapers, TV broadcasts, and various media from the major cities around China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, and others.
tourist information
- Chinese National Tourist Association. Limited links to various travel agency tours make this site not especially useful for the average traveler. The Chinese version offers more links to city homepages as well.
- The Beijing Page. Comprehensive page dubbed as the Best Beijing Page, with everything from tourist diaries to Peking Opera to computer related dustry. Very useful for travelers, with much general information on restaurants, accommodations, special events, sights, and more -- even the Beijing Beer Hunter finds a place here.
- Beijing-China Government sponsored website with information on tourist attractions (with few specific practical information details such as hours, address, prices, etc.), daily civilian life, history, economy, government and politics, and the like. No information on accommodations, transportation, etc.
- Beijing Scene. Site geared mainly to expats in the capital city, with information on current events as well as ongoing columns and other pertinent information.
- Hong Kong City of Life. Customized, local home pages for visitors from the United States, Great Britain, France, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, and other countries include travel tips on everything from airlines to hotels to short tours around the city, outlying islands, and New Territories. The Travel Planner section also showcases more specific attractions such as parks, museums, and shopping districts. Good overall presentation and huge amounts of information in English.
- Shanghai Panorama. Provides local news, yellow pages, the "Citywalk" maps/address locations and more. Also includes numerous links to other sites for entertainment, tourism, and more, although some of these are outdated or impossible to access.
- Shanghai Travel Vista. Comprehensive information on travel, tourist attractions like the Bund, and the Shanghai-ed entertainment and nightlife section. A bit less complicated and generally somewhat more reliable (linkwise, at least) than Shanghai Panorama.
transportation
Air Travel Guide to China. Includes airline codes, airline ticket booking offices in major Chinese cities,. Chinese airlines’ overseas offices, and foreign airlines’ Chinese offices in China. Also includes the current timetables for domestic travel and links to major airlines with international service to China.
The China Railways Home Page. Independently produced page dedicated mostly to steam locomotive buffs; also includes somewhat updated timetables for service to and from Beijing's four main train stations to other major destinations.
Beijing-Kowloon/Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train. Information, schedules, and ticket fares for the Beijing-Kowloon (HK) and Shanghai-Kowloon (HK) train service.
Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation. Very high-tech, space age site with various information on the Hong Kong Airport Express and MTR service.
accommodation
- Hotel Guide for China Contact information and some individual website links to hotels in numerous Chinese cities in all provinces and autonomous regions. Also has a reservations form that can be routed through Beijing to all participating hotels.
- Hotels in China. Focuses mainly on high-end hotels — many of them of foreign origins — in many of the most popular tourist cities and some provincial capitals. Secure on-line booking available.
- China Hotels and Travel Buyers Guide. Less comprehensive than some other hotel websites, but with short amounts of tourist-friendly information regarding attractions/history of the various locations included.
India
tourist information
- Tourism in India. All-singing, all-dancing site with lots of groovy pictures and information on everything from heavy industry to camel safaris. Links to transport, accommodation and cultural information.
- City info sites include Delhi Info,Mumbai Net (for Bombay), visit Varanasi (for Benares), Goa Guide, and Calcutta online. They all have info on everything from accommodations to restaurants to festivals to music halls to strip shows and one or two of them have festival information too.
transportation
Indian Railway. Everything you always wanted to know about trains, but were afraid to ask. Annual company reports, timetables (in several languages…) and plenty of nice photos of trains.
accommodation
- Indiatours and Pathfinder have long lists of hotels – most of them a bit ritzy-looking – arranged alphabetically by city, with on-line bookings. Hardly budget bracket, but not many of the dollar-a-night places are on-line yet.
- Indian Hotels. Long list of lots of hotels. In India. Hence the name.
- Indiamart. More hotels. It’s hard to find really good-looking budget places on-line, though — and not really necessary either.
search engines
- IndiaConnect India-specific search engine.
- IndiaFocus. Another search engine — this one has links to just about everything. Cricket and other kinds of culture. And festivals, again. Trains, planes and camel safaris, again.
Southeast Asia
Brunei
- Brunet.bn. Official page of Brunei’s only daily English newspaper.
Cambodia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Tourism.gov.my. Official page of the Malaysian Tourism Ministry. Includes many useful links to airlines, destinations throughout the country, attractions, tourism statistics.
Visit Malaysia has a Kuala Lumpur city guide.
Sarawak.com.my offers excellent information listings pertaining to budget travel in Sarawak.
hostels.com lists hostels in Malaysia, with telephone numbers and addresses.
KTMB Berhad, a Malaysian rail transportation company.
Cari and Sajasearch are Malaysian search engines.
The Star and The Daily Express are English language daily newspapers.
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
- Tourism Thailand. Official page of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Including links to city guides and cultural events. Available in Thai, Korean, French, Japanese and English.
- Amazing Thailand. The official home of the "Amazing Thailand" tourism campaign, with discussions of cultural activities available throughout the region.
- Asia travel. Basic historical and cultural information about Bangkok, capital of Thailand.
- TNTmag offers some pages detailing some of the night life around Khao San Road, Bangkok’s backpacker district.
- Thailand Youth Hostel Association. For those hoping to stay in youth hostels in Thailand, see this page for comprehensive listings of hostels in all major cities and towns in Thailand.
- hostels.com also offers listings of hostels in Thailand.
- Thai train and bus schedules are available at Tourasia.net.
- The Bangkok Post is one of Thailand’s premier English language newspapers. Articles are archived and freely available.
- The Nation is Thailand’s other daily newspaper of record; this site offers the full text of stories.
- hotsearch and cnet.net.th/ are Thai search engines.
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