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A guide book to the 1915 Panama–California Exposition An assortment of guide books in Japan. A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities.
Tourists at Niagara Falls.. Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity. Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism.
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [41] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [42] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...
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This is a bibliography of works related the subject of tourism.. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
Travel guide books (4 C, 110 P) Travel novels (4 C, 26 P) A. ... Pages in category "Travel books" The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 114 total.
Ajia kaido kiko: umi wa toshi de aru (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002) Lawrence Millman (born 1948) An Evening Among Headhunters: And Other Reports from Roads Less Taken (1999) Last Places: A Journey in the North (2000) Northern Latitudes (2000) Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge (2002) Marius Kociejowski (1949)