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Cover of the 2006 edition of Let's Go: Western Europe

The first Let's Go guide was a 20-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by an ambitious Harvard freshman named Oliver Koppell, to be 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 first edition included tips on traveling from Europe to Asia on just four cents, by taking the ferry across the Bosphorus. In 1982, Let's Go travel guides began to be published by St. Martin's Press. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (437x648, 52 KB) Summary Barnes and Noble website Licensing This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who drew the cover or the publisher of the book. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (437x648, 52 KB) Summary Barnes and Noble website Licensing This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who drew the cover or the publisher of the book. ... Headquartered in the legendary Flatiron Building in New York City, St. ...

Ever "witty and irreverent," Let's Go 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 visited every summer. The guides are edited and published over the summer and are often on bookstore shelves by October. Coffeehouse in Bentonville This article is about an establishment where coffee is sold and consumed. ... The main gatehouse of Harlech Castle, Wales. ... Youth hostel in Rome. ... Green Dragon Spring at Norris Geyser A hot spring is a place where warm or hot groundwater issues from the ground on a regular basis for at least a predictable part of the year, and is significantly above the ambient ground temperature (which is usually around 55~57 F or... A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales A national park is a reserve of land, usually owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ... Hopetoun Falls near Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation. ... A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection wax figures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses. ...

As of 2006, there are 48 books in the series, casting light on places from Australia to Turkey. These guides range from regular country guides to adventure, city, and roadtrip guides, many of which are updated annually. Let's Go also has 10 pocket city guides in its series. Let's Go: Europe is the world's bestselling budget travel guide title.

There have been references (in a non-review/article context) to LG in:

• Seinfeld
• The Economist
• Futurama
• The Daily Show

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See also

• tourism

Tourist redirects here; for the album by Athlete, see Tourist (album) Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of recreation and business, and the provision of services for this act. ...

External links

• Let's Go home page
• Beyond Tourism
• Jessica Smith's Let's Go Spring Break