Let's Go Travel Guides
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Let's Go is a travel guide company run entirely by Harvard University students, founded in 1960 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
The first Let's Go guide was a 20-page mimeographed pamphlet handed out on student charter flights to Europe. The first professionally published guide was issued in 1961. Early guides tended to be freewheeling, for example advising travelers on motorbiking through Southeast Asia in the late 1960s and financing travel in Europe by singing in the street.
The books are produced by traveling student researcher-writers, who send raw copy to teams of editors and cartographers (also students) in the United States. Researcher-writers are hired and trained in the spring, with the bulk of travel and research conducted from June to August. In order to keep the writing true to the budget heritage of the series, researcher-writers are paid a daily stipend intended to cover only basic expenses. Every establishment listed in the guides has been visited and recommended by researcher-writers, meaning that tens of thousands of cafes, castles, hostels, hotsprings, nightclubs, national parks, waterfalls, and wax museums are visted every summer. The guides are edited and published over the summer and are often on bookstore shelves by October.
In 2004 there were 45 books in the series, casting light on places from Australia to Turkey. The guides are updated every year. New guides for 2005 include Thailand, Ecuador, and Peru. Let's Go: Europe is the world's bestselling budget travel guide title.
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See also
External link
- Let's Go home page (http://www.letsgo.com/)
- Beyond Tourism (http://www.beyondtourism.com/)