Articles tagged “guidebooks”

The golden age of travel writing is over. What's next to take its place?

This is pretty much your father's travel guide but art directed by a guy in Brooklyn.

TripAdvisor is pushing hard to expand in Latin America, and the ambitious deal with Telefonica is part of that drive. So is launching ts city guides apps into Spanish and Portuguese.

Lonely Planet has spent nearly a year in transition from the beat-up BBC to the upstarts from Tennessee. While this feature doesn't provide many clues to its current performance, it does demonstrate that the boss is having more fun than most.

Travelers today are looking to avoid fees and dig deeper into destinations' local cultures. Startups are smart to try and capitalize on those trends while they last.

Travel marketers worldwide are trying to figure out how to use new mobile apps like Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine to connect with customers. Arlanda makes a smart choice in providing a service that flyers will interact with and remember.

This is the first step forward the Frommer's team has taken online since grabbing the rights to the name and series back from Google earlier this year. There are many more to go.

Airline first class is evolving, but to say it is on the way out is an over-statement. Fold-out maps and print guidebooks? Down, teetering, but not out.

However BBC Trust wants to apportion the blame, the reality is the management screwed-up badly here: the people who BBC entrusted to make this happen, and the integration, and the the top management it brought in to run it. It should have named names.

Even as print travel guides give way to mobile apps and reviews websites, the demand for beautifully designed niche travel content is strong.