Where Are You Going?
Plan your next trip with practical local knowledge. Find a destination guide, prepare for a cruise, read useful travel tips, or shop travel books and planners.
How Can We Help You Plan?
Choose the part of your trip you are working on right now.
Destinations
Know where you are going? Find travel books for cities, countries, islands, regions, and other destinations around the world.
Find My DestinationCruises
Prepare for cruise ports, packing, excursions, embarkation, sea days, and the many details that come with cruising.
Plan My CruiseTravel Tips
Read practical travel advice, local destination ideas, cruise experiences, packing help, and lessons from Lisa and local writers.
Read Travel TipsShop
Find Greater Than a Tourist, Eat Like a Local, and Travel Like a Local books, plus printable travel-planning resources.
Visit the Travel ShopTravel With Local Knowledge
Our goal is simple: connect travelers with practical knowledge from people who know the places they are visiting.
Learn From Locals
Local writers can share context, traditions, practical details, and perspectives that are easy to miss when planning from far away.
Plan What Matters
Use local knowledge to decide what fits your trip instead of trying to follow the same itinerary as every other visitor.
Leave Room to Explore
Prepare before you go, then leave enough flexibility to notice the people, places, food, and experiences you discover along the way.
What Are You Planning Today?
You do not need to plan everything at once. Start with the resource that is most useful right now.
Experience More Than the Typical Tourist
Greater Than a Tourist connects travelers with local knowledge to help them understand a destination, plan more thoughtfully, and create their own meaningful travel experiences.