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JIM BAINBRIDGE THE GAZETTEA recent study of business travelers by international consulting firm Accenture revealed that 51 percent of them choose an airline based on its frequent-flyer programs and 25 percent cite rewards programs as a determining factor in where they stay once they arrive.
The question here is how to find the right program for you. Although a number of Web sites have credit card information, most are limited by corporate self-interest. You get information on one or two major credit card companies and no more, which lowers the odds that you will find what you want.
At the online Consumer Credit Cards Guide, the staff continuously monitors the credit card market and displays the offerings -- from every major company -- side by side so you easily can compare key factors such as interest rates, annual fees and other features.
From the left-hand column of the home page you can limit your search for deals based on low interest charges, instant approval, rewards, frequentflyer miles and other criteria. The "airline credit cards" section alone has 17 options to consider.
If you find a card deal that works for you, the Web site offers an online credit card application form. In some cases, a credit decision is reached within 60 seconds.
www.consumer-credit-cardsguide.com/reward-creditcards.htm
Don't be fooled by the simple, clean, almost austere graphic design of Travelconsumer.com. It's modeled after the Google and Yahoo! approach and shouldn't mask a wide-ranging collection of resources, advice, great writing and unbiased recommendations. Travelconsumer.com's Web-based discussion group provides an opportunity for travelers to share their adventures, recommendations and frustrations with one another.
travelconsumer.com
Mobissimo.com was born out of entrepreneur Beatrice Tarka's frustration with online flight booking. If no one else was willing to create a Web site that could yield instant airline price comparisons, then she would. Just type in where you want to go, the dates, class and type, and Mobissimo does the research for you, working through 55 providers. All for free. A test search for a roundtrip flight from Denver to London in economy class showed a range from $575.72 to $1,471.61.
www.mobissimo.com
Coming soon to a bookstore near you: a guide to a country that doesn't exist. Already a hit in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, the Jetlag Travel Guide to Molvania ("A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry") arrives on these shores next month and can be previewed online. The Web site describes Molvania as "a small, land- locked republic in eastern Europe, famous as the birthplace of whooping cough." Coming soon from Jetlag are guides for Bongoswana (Western Africa's forgotten jewel), San Sombrero (Central America's forgotten jewel) and the Tofu Islands (Southeast Asia's... oh, you get the idea).
www.molvania.com/molvania/index.html
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