WELCOME to the Visit USA Travelplanner 2011
DEAR HOLIDAYMAKER Welcome to the latest issue of our Visit USA Travelplanner which is packed full with even more helpful contacts, information and ideas than ever before, all to help you plan your upcoming trip to the USA. Whether you’re looking for a beach holiday, ranching, ski-ing or exploring on two or four wheels, you’ll find companies and organisations that can help by either providing specific information, booking your flights, hotels and package holidays or providing the attraction tickets and extra services you need to make sure the memories you create on holiday are the best they can be. The USA offers every kind of vacation experience you could want
and here at the Visit USA Association we’re totally committed to helping you, the leisure traveller, to plan and book your holiday. Our 200+ members represent the finest, most professional UK-based companies providing leisure travel arrangements to and within the USA. Our travel agent partners are also ready and waiting to help you with on-the-spot personal advice, backed by their many years of experience in organising US holidays for their clients. So please enjoy browsing our Travelplanner. I’m sure you’ll find plenty
of inspiration within its pages to create your dream US holiday as well as the Visit USA member to make the dream into a reality. Before you know it, you’ll be winging your way over the Atlantic – and with your Visit USA Travelplanner, you’re already half way there. Happy travelling
CONTENTS 4-5
Value for money
6-7 Inspirational holiday ideas 8
International Gateways in the USA
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Visit USA Association members – the US holiday experts
12-27 VUSA members from Airlines and Attractions to Shopping and Tourist Offices
Kate Burgess-Craddy Chair 2010/11, Visit USA Association
28-32 Tour Operators to the USA 34-35 US Map with Time Zones
36-63 State Round-up. Alabama to Wyoming plus Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
64-66 General Tourism Information Passports & Visas, ESTA Customs, The Visit USA Association
The Visit USA Travel Planner is published for the Visit USA Association (UK) by BMI Publications, Suffolk House, George Street, Croydon, Surrey CR9 1SR • T: (+44) (0) 20 8649 7233 • F: (+44) (0) 20 8649 7234 • E:
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www.bmipublishing.co.uk Publishing Director/Managing Editor: Alan Orbell • Publisher: Sally Parker • Creative Director: Matt Bonner • Senior Designers: Dan Franklin and Emma Norton • Designer: Anna Boultbee • Production Manager: Clare Hunter • Production Controller: Rachel Smith • Managing Director: Martin Steady The Visit USA Travel Planner lists only those members who were full members on 21st October 2010 © Copyright 2010 The Visit USA Travel Planner is published annually. Although every effort has been made to achieve accuracy, neither the publishers nor The Visit USA Association (UK) can accept responsibility for any errors or omissions. Apart from the purposes of research, private study, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may not be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without the consent of the publishers and Visit USA Association (UK) or, in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction should be sent to the publishers. COVER CREDIT: Seaworld, San Diego,
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