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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.
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.
Stephen Fry in America is a six-part BBC television series in which Stephen Fry travels across the United States. In the six-part series he travels, mainly in a London cab, through all 50 of the U.S. states and Washington, D.C. The episodes are regularly repeated in the UK on Dave. It was aired in the United States on HDNet.
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.
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.
Frommer sold the travel guide book business to Simon & Schuster in 1977, it changed hands a few times, and Frommer eventually reacquired the rights in 2012. [ 7 ] In the 1980s, he published Frommer's New World of Travel , which advocated alternative vacation styles, and founded Budget Travel magazine, which he sold to Newsweek . [ 8 ]
Footprint Travel Guides is the imprint of Footprint Handbooks Ltd, a publisher of guidebooks based in Bath in the United Kingdom. Particularly noted for their coverage of Latin America, their South American Handbook , first published in 1924, is in its 90th edition and is updated annually.
Turo Inc. is an American peer-to-peer carsharing company based in San Francisco, in the United States.The company allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles via an online and mobile interface in four countries (the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia) [4] and new corporate owners to rent out their cars in France in addition to the four previous countries.