Twitter tips, up-to-the minute websites and customized apps bursting with locals’ advice are all changing the way we travel. But does it mean the end of the guidebooks?

What once required hours of rifling through guidebooks, or Googling into the provincial nooks of the internet, is now attainable in an instant. And increasingly we don’t need to find the information. It can find us.

Travel writer Benji Lanyado takes a look at the almost obsolete paper publishing of travel.