How to Buy Travel Literature as a Gift

Travel literature can consist of destination guidebooks, travel magazines, books and biographies. When choosing travel literature as a gift, it's often better to be general rather than specific in your choice of destinations covered.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Ribbons
• Foreign Language Phrase Books
• Gift Cards
• Maps
• Travel Guides
• Book Lights
• Travel Magazine Subscriptions
• Gift Certificates

1. Choose a subscription to a travel magazine for armchair travelers or would-be adventurers looking for a destination.
2. Tailor you choice of books to the recipient's particular interest: adventure travel, birding, camping, climbing, riding trains, art collecting and so on.
3. Choose a book on a specific destination if you know a trip is being planned for that destination. Buy the newest edition of a guidebook from a popular travel series, or buy a coffee table book on the country to be visited.
4. Consider a restaurant guide, museum guide, bed and breakfast guide or shopping guide to the area.
5. Choose a cookbook that reflects the cuisine of a specific country or a book on the history of art or architecture of the country.
6. Buy a dictionary of the language spoken in the destination country.
7. Buy a small book lamp so that everything can be read on the road, day or night.
8. Give a gift certificate to a travel bookstore, and let the recipient choose his or her own books, maps and accessories.

Tips & Warnings

• Always check the publication dates on travel guides. Outdated guidebooks are often still available, but are of little use to today's traveler. The same goes for maps.