Travel guide analysis

The change between travel guides from the past and up-

to-date travel guides

As an example,

can you present

some travel

guides of the past

and of today?

Maybe then we can better understand

the change between travel guides from the past and travel guides of today.

Yes, sure! We will

present you a travel

guide of the past and

of today about Sicily,

Crete and London.

Here you can

see the new

travel guide

from 2005 on

the left and the

old from 1979

on the right.

The old one.

Sicily

Travel guide in the past

from 1979• little handmade

pictures black and white• small writing construction: 23 % is general

information

Travel guide today from 2005 • many colourful

pictures/photos construction: 2 % is general

information

From 2000

From 1978

Crete

Travel guide in the past

from 1978• little handmade

pictures black and white• small writing construction: 28 % is general

informa- tion

Travel guide today from 2000• 144 pages• many colourful

pictures/photos Construction: 5 % is general

information

On the left

sight is the old

one from 1980

and on the

right is the new

one from 2012

Here the travel guide on the left is the new one and the guide

on the right side is the old one.

Here are photos from the old and new travel guide of London.

Here you

see pages of

the new

travel guide.

Here you can see pages of the old travel

guide.

London

Travel guide in the past

from 1980• little black and white

handmade pictures• small writing construction: 50 % is general

information

Travel guide today from 2012 • many colourful and

big pictures construction: 13 % is general

information

But are the contents of the travel

guides from the past and of

today the same?

Which travel guides have which kind of information about what

kind of sights?

In which travel guides can you find more information about events and

restaurants?

In travel guides of the past, you can find more pages with general information about a city or a country.

For example: London

1980 50% of the pages 2012 13% of the pages

Travel guides of the past always have pieces of information about monuments, art and culture, sometimes there is very little information about shopping. The ones of today have more information about very famous sights and shopping malls.

In the travel guides of today, you can find out more about restaurants, pubs, events, parties and beaches than in the old ones.

So: Travel guides adjust themselves to the changing interests of the

tourists visiting a city or a country.

Thank you for listening!!!