Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.
Pauline Frommer, creator of the Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, has two kids, ages 6 and 10.
Guidebooks detailing every yard of the original route, a monthly magazine and later websites reinforced the effort.
Restaurants, too, were used to guidebooks filled with glossy pictures and affable descriptions, rather than critiques of their fare.
Among the practical items, she included an ATM card, a laptop in lieu of lugging guidebooks, a corkscrew, bandages and pain reliever.
Guidebooks today are quick to deride Niagaras one and two, but they are unanimous in declaring the waterfall splendid.
They look for explanations in their guidebooks: such-and-such a century, such-and-such a style.
Tourists sit on the new risers watching nothing or everything, looking down, from time to time, to study their guidebooks.
Or so the recent rash of dating gurus and their controversial guidebooks on landing a rich guy would have you believe.
Guidebooks will no longer send travelers to restaurants that have closed or to once charming inns that have turned into fleabags.
To top it off, the shrinking bookshop landscape made it more difficult to browse and buy guidebooks, driving more travellers online.
The cafes will provide free WiFi and local guidebooks for Airbnb travelers.
Major websites such as Expedia, Orbitz and TripAdvisor popularised digital reviews and made online booking cheaper, more up-to-date and more convenient than guidebooks.
Jonathan Knight, editor of the Cool Camping series of guidebooks, believes there is a new breed of campers taking advantage of these luxury sites.
Seldom mentioned in guidebooks and closer to Jakarta than to Sydney, the coast stretches 750 miles north to the tip of the Ningaloo Reef.
He gives Livestrong cancer guidebooks to patients he meets who have been newly diagnosed, but has separated his feelings about the foundation from Armstrong.
Spurred on by the guidebooks of the day, well-heeled English gentlemen travellers rapturously recounted the sublimity of crashing surf and rocky outcrops in their journals.
Digital e-readers first won travellers over as a way to tote around great reads without having to carry a stack of guidebooks, travelogues and novels.
Today, they echo to the tramp of modern invading hordes, three million tourists a year, armed with cameras and guidebooks rather than pikes and broad swords.
The Maremma (mah-REH-mah) is a place the guidebooks like to call "Tuscany's Wild West, " a once-forgotten region with dark legends of pirates and exiles, witches and plagues.
The 200-year-old Wiley doesn't publish War and Peace, but it has a firm position in consumer books (CliffsNotes, the For Dummies series and Frommer's guidebooks) and textbooks.
Hillbrow, once the favoured destination of the emerging black middle class, was its funkiest nightclub district a decade ago (some guidebooks still urge tourists to go there).
Oakleigh Thorne, heir to a century-old fortune built on tax guidebooks, owns a square mile of cattle pastures here, or so it appears from tax assessment rolls.
Forbes.com hunted down the most expensive preschools in the biggest urban areas across the country using local school guidebooks, Web sites and experts to compare tuitions and programs.
With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum).
When tourists leave Tokyo, they tend to go for the traditional cities often found on the covers of the guidebooks, Osaka and Kyoto, and with good reason.
The publisher also offers free iPad apps for seven destinations, including Burma, Morocco and the US National Parks, that are like basic guidebooks with spectacular photos and links to maps.
They will be able to view vantage points on their tablets that are unavailable on the TV screen or monitor and uncover clues and tricks via guidebooks with real-time information.
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