Yesterday's Times supplement (16/4/8) has an interesting piece
on the travel guidebook industry. I can't find it online.
35,000 guidebooks in print.
Authors are paid peanuts. The result being that they make it up,
with hotel and restaurant listings being mostly fiction - at best
the restaurant reviews are done by kibitzing other people eating,
there's no time or money to do anything else.
Quite a few instances of stuff being made up by authors who never
went to the places they're writing about.
And it looks like getting a lot worse.
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