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We've long been trumpeting Twitter as the travellers' friend, and along with a steady stream of new apps and daily-updated blogs and websites, where does this leave the guidebook? Read our comment piece and have your say.
On Been there we're looking for tips on American kitsch and you can see the winning entries to last month's 'green' photo competition; Delhi's street food blogger gives us a food tour of the Commonwealth Games' host city; plus all the latest news and comment, late deals and more.
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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS
Are guidebooks facing extinction?
Instant korma: Delhi's street food blogger on the city's authentic eats
Gallery: your best entries to the Been there photo competition
Spotted online: Jazz in Athens and an art lovers' Berlin tram tour
MULTIMEDIA
Video: My City - film-maker João Pedro Rodrigues's Lisbon
Audio Visual: The wild side of Dominica
THIS WEEK'S NEWS AND COMMENT
Could Dundee be the new Bilbao?
Japan issues travel alert for Europe after US and UK raise terror threat
Britons robbed of £1.7bn in last five years while on holidays abroad
Britons killed in Peru plane crash over the Nazca Lines
Private water raiding threatens Angkor's temples built on sand
ON BEEN THERE
Plastic fantastic
Win a camera with your kitsch tips on American accommodation The ski season is almost here ...
What are your top tips for having the time of your life?
TRAVEL BLOG
Ask Tom
Lonely Planet's travel expert Tom Hall answers your holiday dilemmas in our monthly live Q&A
WINTER SUN WATCH
Where's hot now? our weekly update on the best sunny autumn getaways
LATE OFFERS
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Walk London podcast: Iain Sinclair takes you on a cultural walk along the Thames in the first of a new series of audio guides to the capital; Video: My City - Dublin with fashion designer John Rocha; plus Lonely Planet's Tom Hall solves your travel dilemmas
DID YOU MISS ...
In Saturday's Travel Guardian
Half-term breaks: Cornwall for all weathers, plus our pick of deals around the world; Alain de Botton's new affordable designer holiday homes; My Travels with Simon Winchester in Namibia; plus Alex Bellos goes in search of his family in Argentina
GUARDIAN HOLIDAY OFFERS
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Classical Italy - 6 nights from £599
