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Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications. [1]

41 relations: Air travel, Ali Hassan Kuban, Anthology, Backpacking (travel), BBC Two, Bhangra (music), Blog, Channel 5 (UK), DEF II, EBay, Environmental impact of aviation, Ethical living, Gimme 5 (TV series), Guide book, Hip hop, Insight Guides, IPod, Janet Street-Porter, Jazz, Jovanotti, Lonely Planet, Magenta Devine, Penguin Books, Popular science, Profile Books, Rapido (TV series), Reference, Romani people in Hungary, Romani people in Romania, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Sky Travel, The Bookseller, The Guardian, The Independent, The Rough Guide to True Crime, Tito Puente, Tony Wheeler, Warning label, William Shakespeare, World music, World Music Network.

Air travel

Air travel is a form of travel in vehicles such as helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, gliders, hang gliding, parachuting, airplanes, jets, or anything else that can sustain flight.

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Ali Hassan Kuban

Ali Hassan Kuban (1929, Gotha, Egypt – 2001) was a Nubian singer and bandleader.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.

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Backpacking (travel)

Backpacking is a form of low-cost, independent travel.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Bhangra (music)

Bhaṅgṛā (بھنگڑ(Shahmukhi), ਭੰਗੜਾ (Gurmukhi)) is a type of upbeat popular music associated with India and the diaspora of southeast Asia into the North America and Europe.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Channel 5 (UK)

Channel 5 is a British commercial television network.

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DEF II

DEF II was a programming strand on BBC2, which aired at 6pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 May 1988 to 23 May 1994, to serve the teenage market.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Environmental impact of aviation

The environmental impact of aviation occurs because aircraft engines emit heat, noise, particulates, and gases which contribute to climate change and global dimming.

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Ethical living

Ethical living is the philosophy of making decisions for daily life which take into account ethics and moral values, particularly with regard to consumerism, sustainability, environmentalism, wildlife and animal welfare.

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Gimme 5 (TV series)

Gimme 5 was a children's television programme broadcast on Saturday mornings on ITV from 25 April 1992 to 27 August 1994.

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Guide book

A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists".

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Insight Guides

Insight Guides, founded by Hans Johannes Hofer, is a travel company based in London with offices in Singapore and Warsaw. They sell customized travel packages, as well as travel guides for both commerce (b2b) and end customers purposes B2C). They also produce maps, globes and travel gadgets for both experienced and new travelers. Insight Guides combines full-colour photography with essays written by local experts. Giving readers reliable, practical information was the driving force behind the concept, but Insight Guides also puts a historical and cultural spin on their content. Hofer's first book, published in 1970, was based on the island of Bali, and was funded by a local hotel. From there, he grew his business, creating over 400 guide books to over 100 destinations. In the late 1990s, he sold his share of the company to Langenscheidt KG. In 2014, Insight Guides and Berlitz Publishing were sold by Langenscheidt to René Frey. Insight launched a new site in September 2015 that focuses on selling customized travel packages prepared by local experts. They also frequently publish travel-related articles and news on their blog.

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IPod

The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.

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Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter, CBE (née Bull; born 27 December 1946) is an English media personality, journalist and broadcaster.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jovanotti

Lorenzo Cherubini (born 27 September 1966), better known as Jovanotti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.

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Magenta Devine

Magenta Devine (born Kim Taylor; 4 November 1957) is a TV presenter and journalist best known for presenting the youth programmes Rough Guide and Reportage on BBC2 in the 1990s.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Profile Books

Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996.

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Rapido (TV series)

Rapido is a BBC2 television show which ran from 1988 to 1992, and was presented by Antoine de Caunes.

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Reference

Reference is a relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

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Romani people in Hungary

Romani people in Hungary (also known as Hungarian Roma or Romani Hungarians; magyarországi romák or magyar cigányok) are Hungarian citizens of Romani descent.

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Romani people in Romania

Romani people (Roma in Romani; Țigani in Romanian) in Romania, Gypsy, constitute one of the country's largest minorities.

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a British new wave band formed in 1982 by former Generation X bassist Tony James.

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Sky Travel

Sky Travel was first launched on 3 October 1994 (and later in 2003 relaunched as Sky Travel Shop) and showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies, and documentaries, with Sky Travel Shop being the adverts for travel agencies.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Rough Guide to True Crime

The Rough Guide to True Crime is a non-fiction paperback reference guide to national and international true crime cases by American crime writer Cathy Scott.

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Tito Puente

Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Tony Wheeler

Tony Wheeler (born 20 December 1946), is an English publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife Maureen Wheeler.

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Warning label

A warning label is a label attached to an item, or contained in an item's instruction manual, warning the user about risks associated with the use of the item, and may include restrictions by the manufacturer or seller on certain uses.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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World Music Network

World Music Network is a UK-based record label specializing in world music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Guides

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