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The guidebooks that taught tourists what to skip

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Before Yelp elites could gatekeep a city, there was John Murray III. He built a publishing empire by telling wealthy Victorians exactly which Italian ruins were actually worth their time and which ones were for the peasants, single-handedly inventing the concept of the 'tourist trap' checklist.

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