Talk:Not for Tourists

Reorganisation

While adding references and expanding a bit, I also slightly reorganised the article, and also commented out a couple of lines that I thought probably don't add much - someone else can review them and decide whether to delete them entirely or restore them. --Zeborah 08:42, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

For tourists?

I'm not sure if this is really not for tourists or if it's a marketing ploy. Many people visting places on vacation have an aversion to the word "tourist" (see, e.g., this article or this post), and I have a hunch that these books are in fact for tourists (i.e., people traveling for pleasure, generally to unfamiliar places) and merely capitalizing on the stigma around the tourist label. Looking at a recent edition of the Boston guide a little, I noticed that it looked very much like a standard tour guide (e.g., Frommers or Lonely Planet), with landmarks (including expensive hotels), nightlife, and restaurants all prioritized over "shopping." The book also features numerous mentions of "locals," creatures that exist almost entirely in discussions of tourists, mainly because a "local" is the antithesis of the tourist. There did seem to be some discussion aimed mainly at people who actually live there or are planning to move there (how to get parking permits, for instance), but the title seems to be a bit of a give away: the only people I've ever met who worried about whether they were tourists or not were, well, tourists. —2600:1702:1BD0:9170:AD65:B963:5DA5:C7E9 (talk) 19:13, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Website and Business Status?

I can't find any evidence this business is defunct, but the website that is now "back online" looks like targeted domain squatting, or perhaps a fan's attempt to restore prior website content using Wordpress, but not the website of a professional tourism publishing imprint. Previous archives of the website from the Internet Archive also look substantially different; in 2020 their site appeared to be primarily a business marketing page for a publishing imprint ([1]); going further back to 2013 their site did appear to host content targeted at travellers ([2]) but even then the design of the site appeared far more professional. Their "current" site also doesn't link at all to a place to purchase books published under their imprint (which appears to be active and owned by Simon and Schuster, see [3]). I'm not really sure what's going on here, but it feels pretty sketchy. Dylan (talk) 18:00, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

• I went ahead and "fixed" this by linking to S&S and removing the link to the possibly unaffiliated website, but if someone knows more about what's up here, please feel free to amend that. Dylan (talk) 18:10, 19 December 2021 (UTC)