A guide book is a book for tourists or travelers that provides details about a geographic location, tourist destination, or itinerary. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A tourist destination is a city town or other area that is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from Tourism. Travel literature is Travel writing considered to have value as Literature. It is the written equivalent of a tour guide. A tour guide is a person who guides visitors in the language of their choice and interprets the cultural and natural heritage of an area which person normally possesses a specific area It will usually include details, such as phone numbers, addresses, prices, and reviews of hotels and other lodgings, restaurants, and activities. Lodging or a holiday accommodation is a type of residential Accommodation. Maps of varying detail are often included. Sometimes historical and cultural information is also provided. Different guide books may focus on different aspects of travel, from adventure travel to relaxation, or be aimed at travellers with larger or smaller travel budgets, or focus on the particular interests and concerns of certain groups, such as lesbian and gay singles or couples. Adventure travel is a type of Tourism involving Exploration or Travel to remote exotic and possibly hostile areas where the traveler should "expect Budget (from French bougette, purse generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues Guide books are generally intended to be used in conjunction with actual travel, although simply enjoying a guide book with no intention of visiting may be referred to as "armchair tourism".

Contents 1 History 2 Series 3 Notes 4 See also

History

The modern tourist's guidebook was separately invented by Karl Baedeker in Germany (1835) and by John Murray III in England (1836). Karl Baedeker ( 3 November, 1801 &ndash 4 October, 1859) was a German Publisher whose company Baedeker Year 1835 ( MDCCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common John Murray (1745–1793 was the founder of a British publishing house renowned for the roster of authors it has published in its history including Jane Austen Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap ^[1] Baedeker and Murray produced impersonal, objective guide; works prior to this combined factual information and personal sentimental reflection. ^[1] The availability of the books by Baedeker and Murray helped sharpen and formalize the complementary genre of the personal travelogue, which was freed from the burden of serving as a guidebook. ^[1] The Baedeker and Murray guidebooks were hugely popular and were standard resources for travelers well into the 20th century. As William Wetmore Story said in the 1860s, "Every Englishman abroad carries a Murray for information, and a Byron for sentiment, and finds out by them what he is to know and feel by every step. William Wetmore Story ( February 12, 1819 - October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor art critic poet and editor "

Following World War II, two new names emerged which combined European and American perspectives on international travel. Eugene Fodor, a Hungarian-born author of travel articles, who had emigrated to the the United States before the war, wrote guidebooks which introduced English-reading audiences to continental Europe. Eugene Fodor (pronounced /ju'dʒin 'foʊdɚ/ ( October 14, 1905 in Léva, Hungary (now Levice, Slovakia) — February Travel writing is a broad category of Writing concerned with various aspects of Travel. Arthur Frommer, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Korean War, used his experience traveling around the Continent as the basis for Europe on $5 a Day (1957), which introduced readers to options for budget travel in Europe. Arthur Frommer (born 1929 is a travel writer publisher and consumer advocate and the founder of the Frommer's series of travel guides and Arthur Frommer's Budget The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the Frommer's is a Travel guidebook series and one of the bestselling travel guides in America Both authors' guidebooks became the foundations for extensive series, eventually covering destinations around the world, including the United States. In the decades that followed, Let's Go, Lonely Planet, Insight Guides, Rough Guides, and a wide variety of similar travel guides were developed, with varying focuses. Let's Go is a Travel guide company run entirely by Harvard University students founded in 1960 and headquartered in Cambridge MA. Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel Guidebook publishers in the world Insight Guides are a Corporation based in London who create Travel guides for commercial and domestic use Rough Guides Ltd is a Guidebook and Reference publisher owned by Pearson PLC.

With the emergence of digital technology, many publishers turned to electronic distribution, either in addition to or instead of print publication. This can take the form of downloadable documents for reading on a portable computer or handheld device such a PDA or iPod, or online information accessible via a web site. iPod is a popular brand of Portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc This enabled guidebook publishers to keep their information more current. Traditional guide book incumbents Lonely Planet, Frommers, Rough Guides, and In Your Pocket City Guides, and newcomers such as Schmap are now offering travel guides for download. Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel Guidebook publishers in the world Frommer's is a Travel guidebook series and one of the bestselling travel guides in America Rough Guides Ltd is a Guidebook and Reference publisher owned by Pearson PLC. In Your Pocket (IYP is a European city guide publisher and online tourist information provider Schmap is the publisher of free Digital Travel guides for destinations throughout Europe and the USA, as well as Canada, To download is to receive data from a remote or central system such as a Webserver, FTP server, mail server or other similar systems New online and interactive guides such as Tripadvisor, Wikitravel, World66, and Travellerspoint enable individual travelers to share their own experiences and contribute information to the guide. TripAdvisorcom is a free Travel guide and research Website that hosts reviews from users and other information designed to help plan a Vacation. Wikitravel is a Web -based project "to create a free, complete up-to-date and reliable worldwide travel guide. World66 was a Dutch company which embraced the Open content idea and tried to transform it into a profitable business Travellerspoint is a Social networking site for people who want to learn from or share experiences with other travellers Wikitravel, Travellerspoint and World66 make the entire contents of their guides updatable by users, and make the information in their guides available as open content, free for others to use. Open content, a Neologism coined by analogy with " Open source " describes any kind of Creative work published in a format that explicitly allows

Series

This list is a select sample of the full range of english language guide book publishers - either contemporary or historical.

• Avant Guide
• Blue Guides
• DK Eyewitness Travel
• Footprint
• Frommer's
• Fodor's
• Insight Guides
• In Your Pocket City Guides
• Let's Go
• Lonely Planet
• Local City Guide Book
• Open Road Publishing
• Not For Tourists
• Rough Guides
• Schmap
• Spartacus International Gay Guide
• Time Out
• The Travellers Guru
• Wikitravel
• Wikivoyage

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} James Buzzard. Avant Guide, derived from the French term Avant-garde, is a term used to refer to people or actions that lead other people to experiences that are Novel or experimental The Blue Guides (French Guides Bleus) are a series of highly detailed and authoritative travel guidebooks focusing almost exclusively on Art Dorling Kindersley is a leading publisher of illustrated reference books Footprint Books are a publisher of Guidebooks based in Bath in the UK Frommer's is a Travel guidebook series and one of the bestselling travel guides in America Fodor's (ˈfoʊdɚz is the world's largest publisher of English language Travel and Tourism information and the first relatively professional producer Insight Guides are a Corporation based in London who create Travel guides for commercial and domestic use In Your Pocket (IYP is a European city guide publisher and online tourist information provider Let's Go is a Travel guide company run entirely by Harvard University students founded in 1960 and headquartered in Cambridge MA. Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel Guidebook publishers in the world Not For Tourists (abbreviated NFT) is a series of guides to major cities (thus far all American ones Rough Guides Ltd is a Guidebook and Reference publisher owned by Pearson PLC. Schmap is the publisher of free Digital Travel guides for destinations throughout Europe and the USA, as well as Canada, The Spartacus International Gay Guide is an international gay travel guidebook published annually since 1970 originally by John D Time Out is a Publishing company based in London, England. The company's best known product is the Time Out weekly listings Magazine Wikitravel is a Web -based project "to create a free, complete up-to-date and reliable worldwide travel guide. Wikivoyage is a free web -based Travel guide for both travel destinations and travel topics written by voluntary authors "The Grand Tour and after (1660-1840)" in The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (2002). Page 48-50.

See also

• Audioguide
• Tourism
• Travel writing
• Travel literature

An audio tour or audio guide provides a recorded spoken commentary normally through a Handheld device, to a Visitor attraction such as an Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel Travel writing is a broad category of Writing concerned with various aspects of Travel. Travel literature is Travel writing considered to have value as Literature.

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