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AI guidebooks: are they a threat?

AI guidebooks: are they a threat?

Yes. But not necessarily in the way you might think...

Apr 08, 2025
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AI isn’t coming for our first-person travel features – as Steph put it last week, it can’t taste, feel or smell, or even physically travel to a destination. Our perfect prose and beautifully crafted paragraphs are safe, for now. But is AI coming for our guidebooks?

As a guidebook author myself, whose career started at a guidebook publisher in London way …

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