18 Trending Travel Guidebook Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

Write A Travel Guidebook

Every travel destination offers a unique experience. Are you passionate about traveling and exploring new locations? You can translate unique experiences into something tangible for other travelers by writing a travel guidebook.

A travel guidebook explains to travelers different things about the destination, including:

What is there to do
What and where to eat
How to get around
Where to stay

If you are enthusiastic about your local neighborhoods and townships, you can share a lot of information and market them as ideal travel locations.

Looking for some examples of a travel guidebook?

Interested in case studies of a successful travel guidebook? Check out our full list of success stories.

1. AAA ZIP/Postal Code

Where they're located: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Website traffic: 15.5M/month

2. Lonely Planet

Love travel? Discover, plan and book your perfect trip with expert advice, travel guides, destination information and inspiration from Lonely Planet.

Where they're located: In Salah, In Salah, Algeria
Website traffic: 4.33M/month

Learn more about starting a travel guidebook:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a travel guidebook?
-> Pros and cons of a travel guidebook

Need inspiration?

-> Other travel guidebook success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a travel guidebook

Other resources

4. Fodors Travel Guide

Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.

Where they're located: St. Lawrence, Jersey
Website traffic: 2.97M/month

5. Frommer's Travel Guides: Trip Ideas, Inspiration & Deals

Where they're located: Batha, Chad

6. Rough Guides

Find a destination, look for inspiration, read features and get great travel advice, from Rough Guides – the leading publisher of travel and reference guides.

Where they're located: Hirevo, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Website traffic: 560K/month

7. Visit A City

Plan your trip with free itineraries, guides, activities and maps. Create your personal travel guide with full information on all attractions, shopping and more

Where they're located: Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA

8. Free Travel Guides

Free vacation guides from 100's of destinations. Available by download or mail... Find Your Next Adventure. Plan a Better Trip.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

9. Travel Guide Book

Travel All Around the World with Travel Guide book blog, where you can find alot of good photo, tours, Travel tips and guide.

10. DragonTree Publishing

How much they make: $2.4K/year
Where they're located: El Paso, Spain
Current team size: 0

How To Write A Travel Guidebook And Sell Thousands Of Copies

Learn how a writer and tour guide turned her niche knowledge of the Spanish island of La Palma into a successful book business, earning ⅓ of her modest income through sales of her self-published guide book to the island's astronomical observatory and other publications, often selling directly to observatory visitors and other outlets, and how the books promote her income-earning work.

About

Sheila started DragonTree Publishing about 12 years ago

Revenue

Sheila grew the business to $200/month

Read this case study

Read by 6,000 founders

11. Get Your Free PDF Travel Guide Book here at Tripogogo Tripogogo

Free guidebooks are a smart traveler’s best friend. Download your free PDF travel guide and be prepeared for your next trip.

12. Travel Guides: Vacation brochures, maps and planning kits.

TravelGuides.com is your comprehensive, one-stop source for the best travel guides, vacation brochures, maps and planning kits.

13. Guidebook

The best stories, reviews, hidden secrets and useful facts for exploring the world.

14. Vacation Country Travel Guide Northwest USA and Alaska

The most comprehensive online travel guide for Alaska, western Canada and Northwest USA

15. Traveling Guidebook

Traveling guide books

16. Travel Guide Books

Looking for travel guide books or guide book publishing? Come take a look at our travel guide books & see how we can help with guide book publishing.

17. The Nabongo List Co.

The Nabongo List a luxury, travel membership that gives you the best in local, luxury and unique experiences all around the world, curated by Jessica Nabongo.

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