Great Adventure Vacations With Your Kids

is awarded "Best Travel Book of the Year."

Great Adventure Vacations With Your Kids the second book in a new series of travel guidebooks by Dorothy Jordon, America's leading expert on family travel has been awarded "Best Travel Book of the Year" by the North American Travel Jouranalist Association. This famiy guidebook that helps parents and children select and plan adventure vacations they can experience and enjoy together was selected by this organization of travel journalists as North America's best.

According to Dorothy Jordon, adventure vacations don't have to translate to roughing it in rustic accommodations or spending months preparing for a physical ordeal. Most of the adventure vacations outlined in this book provide plenty of comfort, even luxury, and options for different levels of skill and physical abilities. "After all, " she says, "this is supposed to be an enjoyable vacation, not torture."

Great Adventure Vacations With Your Kids supplies detailed information on how to prepare for, get the most out of, and what to expect from adventure vacations with your entire family. dorothy Jordon ha packed these pages with all the information you'll need to plan for great vacations with your kids. Her suggestions take in every corner of the United States - from llama trekking in lush Oregon to sea kayaking along the Carolina coast, and from canoeing on Minnesota's sky blue lakes to whitewater rafting in West Virginia. Select foreign destinations are also included such as Club Med facilities in the Caribbean, France, Isreal and Indonesia, as well as bicycling in Italy, dog sledding in Scandinavia, or horseback riding in Morocco.

One chapter describes adventures travel companies and their programs, another provides insight on mountain resort vacations for both the summer and winter, and yet another recommends the best places to stay and get a wonderful adventure experience witout packing up and moving to new lodging every few days.

Parents shouldn't have to put off travel until their children get older. Traveling with even very young children can be wonderfully rewarding. All you need is information relevant to your needs-before you go. This is Dorothy Jordon's guiding philosophy during more than two decades of involvement with the travel industry as a travel agent, newsletter publisher, national magazine travel editor, nationally published columnist and family travel expert.

You'll find detailed information on how to prepare for, get the most out of and what to expect from family holidays. These pages are packed with all the information you'll need to plan for and enjoy great vacations with kids of all ages-infants, toddlers, school age or teenagers-whether you are a traditional family, single parent or grandparent.

This unique guidebook is more than a listing of vacation possibilities. Dorothy's conversational style provides readers with a feel for each of these vacations. Great Adventure Vacations With Your Kids is the next best thing to discussing a future family vacation with a good friend.

About the author:

Dorothy Jordon has been called the "acknowledged heavy hitter in the field" by the New York Times. She has been involved with the travel industry for 26 years. She is the founder and managing director of TWYCH, Travel With Your Children, the resource information center for parents and travel agents on family travel

Dorothy Jordon is the leading spokesperson in the nation on family travel. Since 1984 she has published Family Travel Times® America's only newsletter specializing in family travel. She was the contributing travel editor to Family Circle and was the travel editor for Child Magazine. Her family travel columns and articles have been published in Parents Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, Ladies Home Journal, Travel Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Diversion, Travel/Holiday Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler and more. She has appeared on national television's Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, The Today Show, ABC's Business World, CBS News, FOX News, Financial News Network, CNN, The Travel Channel and many more programs.

Dorothy is married and lives in New York City with her husband and two teenage sons. They still enjoy family vacations together.

Great Adventure Vacations With Your Kids

by Dorothy Jordon

$11.95, paper, 6x9, 208 pages

World Leisure Corporation

ISBN: 0-915009-48-X

Great Adventure Vacations With Your Kids is retails in bookstores nationwide for $11.95.

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