As one of the largest online travel map and travel guide shop on the web, we thought we should comment on some of issues that have been flying about the press and online over the last couple of days.
American writer Thomas Kohnstamm has recently declared in his book, Travel Writers Go to Hell?, that he penned a section in a Lonely Planet Colombia guide without even visiting Columbia. With the London Book Fair currently on it's certainly been one of the main issues on the agenda.
This particular case is obviously an extreme case and hopefully a unique case. There will no doubt be a place for some internet research for travel guides and no writer can ever say that they have the time to stay in every hotel. What may be the case is that writers will research better rated hotels and then choose to visit those ones and review them.
Travel guides will always be of use, simply for their take away handiness, anyone that's ever tried printing out reams of information from the web will know that it's less timeconsuming, and far less wasteful to take a guidebook away.
According to the Times today the current Top 10 Travel Guide books are:
1. Time Out
2. Bradt
3. Lonely Planet (in despite of the recent news)
4. Rough Guides
5. Luxe
6. Footprint
7. Dorling Kindersley
8. Good Hotel Guide
9. Inyourpocket.com
10. Baedeker
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