Florida Tourist Guide

The Florida Travel Guide has many typical features of travel literature.

A typical feature of travel writing is essential information. An example of this in the travel guide is the directory. The directory contains the addresses  and phone numbers of the countries consultants, tourist information for Canada, Florida and the UK, it also holds the numbers of the American Association of Retired Persons and Mobility International. The purpose of these numbers are to give tourists a way to find things out that aren't in the book. In addition the directory has been given  its own column and it is in a box which makes it easy to read and quicker to find. This is typical of a travel book to give people this type information because it informs people of how to find the information they want to find while they are away and need the phone numbers to plan their trips.

The writing in the travel book is also very typical of the travel guide genre. The introduction for example is short and snappy; only one short paragraph long. The introduction is very different to the rest of the writing as it has many opinions wound into it as well as facts for example; 'the ultimate family destination' and 'a real pleasure' by using opinions it makes the writing more  interesting and to attract the reader before they begin to read the facts  by making the introduction interesting it makes reading the facts more interesting and worth while.  The reason travel literature does this is to interest the reader to make them more interested in the book because many people don't enjoy reading things about travel but they prefer to travel themselves.