Free booklet offers 101 tips for women travelers

Where do Hong Kong shoppers go for deals?  How many credit cards should you take abroad?  How do you make a hotel room safer? Find the answers to these questions and more in a free booklet, “101 Tips for Women Travelers,” being offered by a tour company.

The company, Overseas Adventure Travel, based in Cambridge, Mass., gleaned the advice from customers and employees, including trip leaders. Besides the tips, the 126-page booklet offers entertaining profiles of adventurous female travelers, from the Queen of Sheba to Mt. Everest climber Junko Tabei.

You can order the booklet online or by calling (800) 873-5628 and leaving your name, mailing address and the year you were born. Why the year? Because if you’re over age 50, the target customer for Overseas Adventure Travel,  the company will follow up with a letter asking if you’d like to receive its catalog, said spokeswoman Priscilla L. O’Reilly.

The booklet will be available while supplies last; delivery takes two to three weeks, the company said.  About 20,000 copies were printed, O’Reilly added.

FYI, the answers to the questions above, according to the booklet, are Shenzhen, China; two; and put a small rubber doorstop under the door.

— Jane Engle, assistant Los Angeles Times Travel editor]

[Photo: Cover of "101 Tips for Women Travelers." Credit: Courtesy of Overseas Adventure Travel]

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