Insight Guides
Insight Guides are a corporation based in London who create travel guides for commercial and domestic use. They produce atlases, city guides and maps. Other detailed guides include shopping, eating and museum guides.
Atlases
Insight Guides create atlases of the whole planet. The more detailed the atlas is, the higher the purchase price is. The atlases are catagorized for commerical and domestic use. The atlases provide names of all locations in the local language and a translation too. Geographic features and locations named are:
- Borders
- National Parks
- Peninsulas and extrusions
- Mountains
- Cities/ towns and villages
- Islands
- Water features inc. bays, sounds, rivers and lakes etc.
- Roads
- Cruise ship paths
- Depth measurements and height measurements
At the back of the atlas there is a small guide to all countries in the world which provides information on geography, politics and economy as well as a colour photograph from the country. There is then also a guide to International Organizations. The information provided for each organization is Foundation date, organization members and headquarter location.
Atlas Titles
- Insight Deluxe World Travel Atlas (ISBN: 9812583327)
- Insight World Travel Atlas (ISBN: 9812580700)
- Insight Concise World Atlas (ISBN: 9812580719)
- Insight Illustrated World Atlas (ISBN: 9812580727)
- Insight World Atlas and Almanac (ISBN: 9812580735)
- Insight Family World Atlas (ISBN: 9812584277)
City Guides
Each book is dedicated to a city. They are written by local experts who provide information on restaurants, cafes and other tourist features. Other information provided are the history of the city, art, people and culture. Features include:
- Top attractions listings
- Restaurant location map
- Photographs
- City map
Cities
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Barcelona, Spain
- Beijing, China
- Boston, USA
- Brussels, Belgium
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Hong Kong
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- London, United Kingdom
- Madrid, Spain
- New York City, New York, USA
- Orlando, Florida, USA
- Paris, France
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Rome, Italy
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Singapore
- St. Petersburg, Russia
- Sydney, Australia
- Tokyo, Japan
- Venice, Italy
Other Guides
Insight Guides create other guides too such as pocket guides to a country. They are designed to be itinerary based so that the user/ reader can create their own personal tour of the country. A similar guide which is designed for cities are the compact guides which acts as an encyclopedia for 130 different destinations.
Insight Guides also make globes for different uses. The globes can be illuminated and tilted as well. Their latest globe is a levitating globe which is controlled by a computer microchip.