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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.
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
Tourism has been developed mainly by Myanmar's government, which has encouraged tourism since 1992. Private enterprises also exist, catering to a wide range of tourists. In 2010, 791,505 foreign tourists visited Myanmar, with 295,174 foreign tourists entering the country via Yangon International Airport. [3]
Driven by historical tours to places like Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank, as well as beach holidays in Tel Aviv, tourism in Israel makes up around 3.6% of total employment, according to ...
A guide to the General Government, the Polish land occupied by Germany,was published in 1943. Source: Marian Mark Drozdowski, 'The history of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer' Polin, Vol 3, 1988, 189-199, cited in T. Snyder 'Blood Lands' Vintage, 2010, p145.
Pages in category "Travel guide books" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. ... Ward Lock travel guides; Weird US (book series)
It also represented Israel in Laos from 1956 to 1964, Cambodia from 1959 [4] to 1966, [5] Ceylon starting in 1957, and in the Maldives at some point. Despite the transfer of the capital of Myanmar from Yangon to Nay Pyi Taw in 2005, most of the diplomatic missions in Myanmar have not moved there, and the embassy is still located in Yangon.
Frommer's (/ ˈ f r oʊ m ər z /) is a travel guide book series created by Arthur Frommer in 1957. Frommer's has since expanded to include more than 350 guidebooks in 14 series, as well as other media including an eponymous radio show and a website.