7
Websites better than guidebooks
Sunday February 7, 2010 - Email this article to a friend
Well, we don't need to be told that at PlanetSKI but a survey has just confirmed it. We do though think that guidebooks still have a place.
Web sites give people more user satisfaction than their paper counterpart, the Guidebooks.
That's according to Wanderlust magazine's annual travel awards.
All of the top ten websites managed to exceed the 80% mark and the favourite travel website got 95%. The highest score for a guidebook was 79%.
2,000 people took part in the poll that has been reported on the Travel Mole website.
"The pace of change in travel has never been faster and these results show traditional guidebooks struggling to complete with blogs and websites which can be updated dozens of times each hour," says Editor in chief, Lyn Hughes.
Obviously here at PlanetSKI we agree but it is of course so much easier to update the news on a website than a magazine or guidebook.
We sometimes have a wry smile on our faces as we read the "news" in magazines and realise we covered the same story weeks or even months before.
However we are fans of ski guidebooks as they can go into so much more detail and there is something satisfying about a book in our opinion.
Often it is easier to find information in a well indexed book, than getting lost in the back pages of websites.
Bookmark this page
Related Articles
Internet holiday bookings up (Friday February 3, 2012)What's in a name? (Friday February 3, 2012)
Ski operator collapses (Monday January 30, 2012)
US company buys European ski web site (Monday January 16, 2012)
Is it time to book? (Wednesday January 11, 2012)
Free lift passes for US skiers (Tuesday January 10, 2012)
