With the flurry of contradicting articles, studies, analysis, reports end more about the future of traditional publishing with the advent of self-publishing, some other areas of publishing are suffering from another plague, their growing obsolescence and impending death.

Yet, their fate is not due to the rising star of self-publishing not to the revolution in the publishing world. They simply became less than useful due to the wealth of information available on the internet and the growing popularity of social media to get unbiased information about target destination.

Here is what Katka Lapelosa has to say about the guide book’s fate