By Marny Requa
So you're going to Japan. You have your hotels, rental car, and business meetings worked out, but you don't know what to do during your free time. Travel books are all right, but they're often unwieldy and usually not up-to-date.
Try Fodor's Worldview Travel Update service. Call a toll-free number, give your destinations and travel dates, and you're immediately faxed the inside scoop on restaurants, recreational activities, current events, exhibits, business services and children's activities. It covers 160 destinations around the world.
Of course, the conventional thread running through many of Fodor's popular travel books is sewn into Travel Update – it sticks to restaurants and clubs crowded with tourists, and it leaves out some of the best (and cheapest) ways to get to know a city – free classical music in Parisian churches, city squares in Athens, markets in Manila, and museums' permanent collections. It is obvious, however, that Fodor's knows its cities well – all the districts of Paris, for example, are amply represented in each category.
For business travelers in a hurry, this may be all the travel advice they need.
Fodor's Worldview Travel Update: US$9.95 for first destination, US$6.95 for each consecutive destination. (800) 799 9609, +1 (415) 616 9988.
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