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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Doug Lansky has been living abroad for more than twenty years, during which time he’s travelled in over 120 countries. He is the author of ten books, including three for Rough Guides. As well as writing a travel column syndicated in over forty newspapers, he has hosted a Travel Channel show, served as a correspondent for Public Radio’s The Savvy Traveler, worked as travel editor for Scandinavian Airlines’ inflight magazine and contributed to publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Reader’s Digest, Esquire, Men’s Journal, The Guardian, San Francisco Examiner, and Huffington Post. On the speaking circuit, Doug has given acclaimed lectures at nearly a hundred universities, and spoken at both public travel events and tourism conferences, including to a sold-out audience at National Geographic Headquarters and for the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

Acknowledgements

I want to start by thanking Henrik Harr, a talented Swedish travel writer and editor who helped me update websites and prices for this edition. I was extremely happy to have him lend his expertise to this project. I also want to thank my editor, Rebecca Hallett, who diligently combed through the book with the most genuine effort to make it better than ever. Then there are all the alert readers who have sent in feedback on previous editions so that this one could be even better. This edition is especially improved by an updated LGBT section – thanks to Rei Haberberg and Ginger Drage for their help on this. Plus, there’s an entire team of designers, marketing and sales people at Rough Guides/DK, without whom this book would not ever even have a bar code. Thank you all.

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