Travel guides to shop and eat by

A new series of travel guides could be set to take the world in a shopping frenzy.

Designed to appeal to a generation of urbanites and shopaholics, the new range of travel guides, entitled eat.shop guides, give information and quirky insider tips on interesting and alternative places to shop and eat in each of the locations covered.

Created by American graphic designer Kaie Wellman, the guides are now available for a number of major cities across the US and worldwide.

Ms Wellman told Businessweek how she chooses what to include in each guide, stating: "I am not so much interested in whether the place is the hippest in town, or whether everyone in the world has reviewed it, as whether the owner has a strong point of view, presented in a compelling package.

"I can feel it the moment I walk into a place, how much the owners believe in what they do."

Each guide book includes a run-down of 45 stores and 45 restaurants.

Editor of daily email newsletter, DailyCandy.com, Dannielle Romano, commenting on the eat.shop guides, stated: "There are plenty of travel guides that will tell you what the currency is, or what taxi to take.

"But I want to know that, like, when I go to the Four Seasons in Budapest, a guy named Gregory is the best masseuse and if you ask nicely, he will do a special trick with ice - little things like that."

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