Rough Guides

Rough Guides
Parent companyAPA Publications
Founded1982 (1982)
FounderMark Ellingham
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon, England
Publication typesBooks, Mobile apps, Video, Travel Agency
Nonfiction topicsTravel guidebooks
No. of employees50+
Official websiteroughguides.com

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017,[1] Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.

With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

  1. ^ "APA and DK Complete Rough Guides Sale". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

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