This case study looks at how Insight Guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

This case study looks at how Frommer’s designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

This case study looks at how Marco Polo guides designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

This case study looks at how DK guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover, including the use of contrasting colors.

Florida Travel Guide Authors shares the steps he took to turn his travel blog into a series of self-published travel guides to reach a broader audience.

This case study looks at how Rough guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover, including the use of contrasting colors.

Find out how this British travel blogger used his knowledge of traveling around Japan and New Zealand to write and self-publish country and regional guides.

Travel Writer Nancy O’Hare shares her indie author, writing, and self publishing journey to inspire you to write your own travel guide.

This case study looks at how Moon Travel guides have updated their old style design to create a cover that is more indicative of a Lonely Planet travel guide cover. Includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

If you’re including images in your ebooks you don’t have to settle for single inline images. How about including some full page image grids to wow your reader?

An introduction to the major travel guide categories: Destination, Side Trip, Special Interest, Event Specific, Journey, Culinary, and Advice Travel Guides, and a look at the key considerations when writing each category.

Hybrid author Tom Fay has established his travel writing brand around his knowledge of his adopted home of Japan, and shares his writing and self-publishing journey for his Travel Guide, which is an insider’s guide to seeing the best of Japan in one trip. 

Check out this cover design case study from prolific, but lessor known travel guide publisher, Luster. See how they’ve incorporated niche norms into their covers, and what they could have done differently.

This case study looks at the different line-looks Rick Steves uses for his travel guides. He’s carved a niche for himself in Europe, and is a one-man travel dynamo. See what design tips you can pick up from his book covers.

Nobody sells more travel guides than Lonely Planet. So when it comes to designing your travel guide cover, their covers should be the first ones you refer too for design inspiration. This case study article looks at the different line-looks they use for their guides.

Today’s author interview is with Amber Farrington who relocated to London, living and breathing the challenges of a this new city and then wrote about in it in her new book, The London Hustler. Amber shares insights into her writing and self-publishing process, advice you’ll find handy when writing your own destination guide.

Josh Summers has written a travel guide about the western region of Xinjiang so that fellow travelers can discover this remote area of China for themselves. Find out how Josh packaged his local area expertise into a travel guide with personality.

Destination Travel guides are the most popular guides written and read, and many of the other niche travel guides are a sub category of destination guides. Find out what a destination guide is and how you can use this definition to define your scope.

Considering writing a Slow Travel themed travel guide, here’s some background and additional resources to explore this travel niche a little deeper.

Postcards from the Ege which takes the reader on a journey from Istanbul, and then follows the Aegean coastline of Turkey, to the Mediterranean shores of Antalya. Along the way Jack sends us postcards to introduce us to Izmir, Ephesus, and the Bodrum Peninsula, among many other modern day and historical locations.

Jay Artale shares you story about her journey from travel blogger to travel guide author, in this Warm Up Introductory article to our new Author Interview Series.