Fodor’s is the world’s largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information
travelicon wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
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Read Fodor’s reviews to find the best travel destinations, hotels and restaurants. Plan your trip online with Fodor’s.
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Fodor’s is the world’s largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information, and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks. Fodor’s Travel and Fodors.com are divisions of Random House, Inc.
Founder, Hungarian Eugene Fodor was a keen traveler, but felt that the guidebooks of his time were boring, uninspired collections of quickly outdated facts and figures. He decided to address these shortcomings and wrote a guide to Europe, On the Continent—The Entertaining Travel Annual, which was published in 1936.
Going beyond the usual lists of hotels and attractions, the book was updated yearly and gave practical guidance, such as tipping advice, alongside information about the local people and culture. For example, in the introduction, Fodor wrote “Rome contains not only magnificent monuments, […]
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