guidebook

[ gahyd-boo k ]

/ ˈgaɪdˌbʊk /

a book of directions, advice, and information, especially for travelers or tourists.

Origin of guidebook

First recorded in 1805–15; guide + book

guide·book·ish, guide·book·y, adjective

Nowadays people prepare for a trip by reading little more than a few pages of a guidebook.

The Big Idea: How Tourism Can Destroy the Places We Love |Elizabeth Becker |July 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
What is a young Finn or Spaniard visiting Israel/Palestine, this guidebook in hand, to make of this?

Temple Denial |Benny Morris |April 24, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Bradt Travel is bringing out the first guidebook dedicated solely to Sierra Leone.

Africa's Surprise Success Story |Tony Blair |April 29, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
When I came back to the store, my brother-in-law gave to me the Guidebook for Marines.

Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

Strefford aimed his cigarette-end at a tourist on a puggaree who was gazing up from his guidebook at the palace.

The Glimpses of the Moon |Edith Wharton
The guidebook wasn't kidding when it said 'sudden and severe summer storms lash the bay.'

The Flying Stingaree |Harold Leland Goodwin
This information also came from the guidebook, and it surprised me.

The Car That Went Abroad |Albert Bigelow Paine
His geology he had got from a guidebook, out of which he treated us to various extracts, appending commentaries of his own.

A Little Tour In Ireland |S. Reynolds Hole

guidebook

/ (ˈɡaɪdˌbʊk) /

a handbook with information for visitors to a place, as a historic building, museum, or foreign country Also called: guide