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Business travel: A rough guide to guide books
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THE LATE 19th-century guidebook writers had a straightforward
task. They wrote in a market with little competition and little need
for updating. Each decade might bring a new railway or hotel, but the
cathedral, the town hall square and the view across the river would
hardly change from one generation to the next.
Their market could be clearly defined as the rich, leisurely male
traveller whose business and holiday visits were often combined.
Readers could take deference and luxury fo...
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