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JOURNAL OF TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE 101 Exploring the use and impact of travel guidebooks, by Victoria Peel and Anders Sørensen, Buffalo, Channel View Publications, 2016, 250 pp. $44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-84541-562-4 In a previous volume and issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change I reviewed Tour guiding research: Insight, issues and implications by Betty Weiler and Rosemary Black – which explored conceptualizations and research approaches in the subfield of tour guiding. Tour guiding involves individual and/or a group of individuals organizing tours and communication information and interpreting landscapes and attractions to tourists, and there exists some bias depending on the tour guide(s). Exploring the use and impact of travel guidebooks by Victoria Peel and Anders Sørensen at another channel of guiding tourists, but this time through written communication. Guidebooks are written to educate and assist travellers when explor- ing destinations. Many people who go on organized tours also purchase guidebooks for sup- plemental details and information beyond what is included in a tour. This book compared with the book I previously reviewed offers a more practical approach to research, and similar to tour guiding, some accounts of bias again exists – which can influence tourists based