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Rough Guides

Who runs Rough Guides, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest tailor-made travel alternatives.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Rough Guides

Rough Guides roughguides.com

Plan and book your dream trip with local travel experts handpicked by Rough Guides. They’ll tailor every detail and support you throughout your journey.

Wikidata: UK travel company

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Rough Guides tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.

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We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Rough Guides’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Rough Guides

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20 of the 60 sites closest to Rough Guides match.

  1. 01
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  2. 02
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  3. 03
    Kiwi.com kiwi.com English No trackers

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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    Trip.com trip.com Top 10K English No trackers

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  8. 08
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  9. 09
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    JTB Corporation jtb.co.jp Japanese 1 tracker

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    Sojern sojern.com English 1 tracker

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  17. 17
    Rick Steves ricksteves.com English 1 tracker

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  18. 18
    Wakacje.pl wakacje.pl Polish 1 tracker

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    Amadeus Hospitality travelaudience.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

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  20. 20
    SOTC sotc.in English 1 tracker

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Rough Guides adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
114 ms

Competitor map

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