As we’ve been on the road in Mallorca working – Terence has had a massive photo shoot and I’ve been updating a book – with long, busy days and no time for anything else but work, I haven’t had time to blog. However, a reader has asked that I post some photos instead. So here … Read more about Postcard from Mallorca: Portocristo
I almost forgot to tell you… as my regular Cool Travel Guide readers know, we spent a lot of time in Italy last year researching and photographing first editions of new travel guidebooks, starting with a month in Calabria, then a month in Milan, followed by more than a month in the Italian Lakes region … Read more about Our Italy books hit the shelves!
Don’t you think there are some destinations where a guidebook is invaluable? There’s been a backlash against guidebooks in recent years, since the rise of freely available online travel content. And while there are certainly cities I’ll go without a guidebook, cities where you can stroll around and stumble across places of interest pretty easily, … Read more about There’s more to beaches and malls in Dubai: the case for using a guidebook
“Dubai has always been seen as a playground for the rich. What is the Dubai tourism authority doing to pull in people with less money?” That was one question among others that came to me Friday via the DK–Rough Guides PR office, as author of DK’s Top Ten Dubai and Abu Dhabi guidebook, from a … Read more about Dubai: destination re-branding urgently required – from ‘playground of the rich’ to the complex compelling place we know it can be
“A couple of years ago when I first started reading travel articles about all the new develop- ments in Dubai, I could never have guessed that this would happen,” Erica from Blissful Travel wrote in response to my post on Dubai yesterday, which was actually a pointer to Terence’s post on Dubai’s Global Reporting Meltdown … Read more about Once upon a time in Dubai: when the fairy tale doesn’t unfold (or get told) the way they wanted it to, Or, Why the media needs to grow up