Do you enjoy writing about travel just as much as you love reading about other's adventures? Or perhaps you just dream of getting paid to travel. Whatever you motivation, Rough Guide, in conjunction with Hotels.com, WorldNomads.com and Intrepid Travel, might have the perfect, Tokyo-bound deal for you.

It's a travel writing scholarship of sorts, except you don't need to be a student. In order to win an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Tokyo for the purpose of updating the Rough Guides Tokyo book, along with travel writing instruction from Rough Guides writer Simon Richmond, you must be 18 and up, be a non-professional writer with a love of travel and a valid passport, and available to travel in February 2010. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-11-19T14:49:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/11/3/23391/0666

These days, it seems like not a week goes by without some new and hyped release of an iPhone travel app, of course today is no different. From the people who brought you the little black NFT Guides, otherwise known as the brilliantly-named "Not For Tourists," comes the shiny new $4.99 NFT iPhone app.

If you're at all familiar with the layout of a printed NFT Guide, then you'll be instantly comfortable navigating the app by fingertip; it's almost as if the books were designed based on the app and not the other way around. And yes—$4.99 is pricey, but we're talking about a book's worth of content here, when the book is usually about $12.95. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-11-04T09:00:31-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/14/23349/991

Ladies will want to order a free copy of the conveniently purse-sized book 101 Tips for Women Travelers. The tips were compiled by Harriet Lewis, the vice chair of Overseas Adventure Travel, a company that caters to Americans 50 and older. Despite the company's audience, the tips don't target seniors. For that matter, most of the tips aren't even gender-specific.

Disclaimer for the guys: You'll find tons of good suggestions in the book that you can use, but you'll also encounter a few girly tips, like using panty liners to extend the use of your lady drawers and help you feel oh so fresh while you're on the go. But overall, the advice is good for all travelers. For example, fabric softener sheets pull triple duty by making the ripe clothes in your luggage smell good, repelling mosquitoes and warding off bedbugs. Then there are some super-specific recommendations that won't be applicable to most people, like be sure to sit sidesaddle on a camel to avoid getting a urinary tract infection.]]> Jennifer Kester 2009-10-15T13:18:37-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/9/26/111138/690

The modern travel guidebook genre is usually traced to Arthur Frommer's seminal 1957 book Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, but tips on making the most of your time abroad have been published in some form or another for centuries. A 13th century Viking travel guide, for example, highlights some of the potential pitfalls of visiting Scotland. A nifty story in the Telegraph points out that the Norse Vikings, as fierce as they may have been, were no match for some of the rougher tribes of Scotland and Ireland, who were said to butcher invaders on arrival. ]]> Victor Ozols 2009-09-26T11:11:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/8/16/221439/686

Nervous about traveling abroad because you might pick up some flesh-eating illness or other? Fear no more: the Center for Disease Control has just released the 2010 edition of the CDC Health Information for International Travel, the yellow bible which contains everything you need to know about staying healthy while you're outside the United States.

This new edition has got a section on medical tourism, so you can figure out which cheaper country is the safest to get your next bit of cosmetic surgery. It's also got advice on newly popular destinations that your local doctor might not know too much about, including Mount Kiliminjaro, India, China and Nepal.

At 540 pages in hardback, this is no backpack travel guide, but instead is something you have to digest thoroughly while you're planning your trip. And while we of course advocate traveling safely and healthily, we're not quite sure we'll be keeping this book at our bedside before our next trip abroad. Perhaps someone else could read it and tell us the important bits?

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· Medical Travel Coverage [Jaunted] ]]> amandak 2009-08-17T09:14:36-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/5/26/124445/128

The folks over at Condé Nast Traveler recently sent three writers on a mission to Moscow and gave each of them a different tool to use in completing some touristy activities. One writer was armed with an iPhone, the other was given a new BlackBerry Bold phone and the last writer was left with an old-school guidebook from Eyewitness Travel.

Interestingly enough, the writer saddled with the guidebook ended up completing the required tasks much faster than the other two with the internet at their disposal. And here's why: ]]> juliana 2009-05-26T17:11:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/23/133629/050

It's hard to know whether the experts are giving you useful information or just the same old song and dance. That's why we're introducing Guidebook Says to commend or correct other travel media. Feel free to commend or correct us in the comments below! This week, we head for the sol in Seville, Spain.

Sevillemay have just been killed 4-0 in football by FC Barcelona, but it's still a major tourist destination for first-time visitors to Spain who want to get a taste of the countryside. At just a train ride away from Madrid, it imparts a vastly different sense of the country -- but what's as real as a bullfight and what's as fake as the flamenco fans they sell in gift shops? Just in time for the Feria de Abril beginning next Tuesday, we make the call with the help of a few travel authorities, below:]]> egw 2009-04-23T14:07:02-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/