Tourist guide

The expression tourist guide corresponds to two definitions:

It is initially a person who accompanies one or more others by them to carry out them on various sites natural or built in order to make them the presentation by an enlightened comment of it.
It is also is a delivers or an audio guide containing of information to the use of the tourists.

The first tourist guides appeared at the beginning of the 19th century, in England and Germany: Guide Reichard In 1784, guide Germany in 1828 of Karl Baedeker (1801 - 1859).

In France, the first large collection of tourist guides was the Guides Joanne , which became then the blue Guides (Hatchet). The development of tourism Automobile encouraged the manufacture of tires Michelin with becoming editor of charts and tourist guides. Their green Guides, appeared after the First World War, is always published.

Other guides, whose Guide of routard, appeared since the years 1970.

The guides Lonely Planet are addressed especially to the solitary traveller limited in budget. Formerly held to the english-speaking, they are more and more often translated, just as the guides Let' S Go (Dakota editions) writings at the origin by the Agency of the students of Harvard. These two guides have the advantage of indicating the current prices.

A new type of guide made its appearance in the market of the guides of voyage: it is about tourist guides audio. The most recent technologies make it possible from now on to locate not only the position of the user but also to determine his centers of interest by taking account of paramêtres such as the direction of the glance, the duration, the repetition on position. This system also reconstitutes the course of the user according to his centers of interest. It is in service with the Château of Lourmarin.

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