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Time to trade in your Travel Guide for a Phone App?
Travel publishing is shifting – Founders are taking a back seat and consumers are turning to digital rather than paperback for their destination information.
Mark Ellingham, publisher of the first Rough Guide 25 years ago predicts that within the next five years guidebooks will go almost completely digital. More and more consumers will turn to digital, like the iPhone and Android, as the media becomes more relevant and useful and the book market continues to stagnate and decline.
So…is it the last chapter for paperback guidebooks? Let’s explore the era of the application.
1National Geographic’s Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps
1. Next Flight – Flight tracking
2. UrbanSpoon – Best restaurant guide
3. HearPlanet – Wikipedia tour guide
4. Air Sharing
5. Tweetie – Send vacation pics
6. IAmHere – Sends an email with a link to Google Maps
7. World Customs – International dos and don’ts
8. Wi-Fi Finder
9. The Weather Channel
10. Google Earth
and soon mTrip Travel Guide 
Click here for the full Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps list
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