1.Would you use a travel app instead of a guidebook? Why, or why not? 2.How else has technology changed how we travel? A travel app may have more advantages than a guidebook but sometimes, it also contains some faults. Though to answer the question, yes, I would use a traveling app instead of a guidebook because the developers will constantly update the app so the userbase wouldn’t get lost anywhere. You can also search up the desired place you’d want to go and every path with every means of transportation will be shown on screen. Additionally, it also tells you how much time it’ll take to get somewhere. One fault in which traveling apps may have compared to guidebooks is that, it may not show the old name for certain districts that old people know of. Instead a guidebook would probably include what locals call old districts despite having a new name registered On the internet.

Technology made everything about traveling easy. I, personally, do not know how people booked hotel rooms in the past. They probably had to send a telegraph to inform the hotel the time of their expected arrival. Nowadays, we can just book hotel rooms online. It also made it much easier to travel to foreign countries since now we can overcome language barriers through many translation apps. Another massive technological improvement is the navigation system. So many people would get lost on their way had there not been a GPS. I’m also glad GPS exists during my time because I would definitely get lost in an alleyway somewhere when I had a trip abroad. It’s really hard to imagine how peasants and aristocrats from centuries ago moved from place to place with nothing but a compass and a poorly made map.