Sunday, May 23, 2004

No-frills boom spawns new type of guide book - 20-May-04.

No-frills boom spawns new type of guide book - 20-May-04.:
Rough Guides is launching a new range of guide books to cater for the booming short breaks market...

The first six Directions guides, launched on Thursday 27 May, are Athens, Lisbon, London, Paris, San Francisco and Venice. A further six guides will launch in August for Amsterdam, New York, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Marrakesh and Tenerife and La Gomera. More are scheduled for next year.

The guides contain more pictures and colourful maps as well as a CD that contains the entire guide in pdf format. They cost £6.99 and are sold in bookshops and online through websites like Amazon."

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