The Art of the travelling Chic

The travel guides are no longer reserved only for adventurers and backpackers ! In recent years, a new kind of guides have appeared. They cater to wealthy vacationers in search of little corners of paradise away from the crowds of tourists.

Here is the list of my preferees guides when I travel ..

1. Luxe Guide

Part of city guides, Luxe Guide compiles all relevant information for traveling chic and smart. Trendy restaurants to dine with the stars in Hollywood, unusual addresses or "hidden" that will become essential in the future ... this pocket guide book a careful selection made by employees of Style and vetted by a writer living there before be approved by the editor of the publication personally visit each of the 31 destinations offered.

2. Louis Vuitton

For 13 years the Parisian trunk creates the event each year with the new vintage of its city guides. It examines the new cities where it moves beyond reason. On the menu, 40 cities and more than 10,000 addresses. Vuitton offers a quirky, artistic and always chic in these cities that agitate the world look. Luxury hotels and boutique hotels, art galleries and design, high tables, bistro chefs or canteens artist, fine grocery, wine bars and chocolate, not to mention the people who give advice with malice the keys to their cities . A must!

3. Luxury Collection by Starwood

Like the Louis Vuitton City Guides, the hotel chain The Luxury Collection, owned by Starwood, in turn initiates a series of six guides to Argentina, the United States, Greece, to Spain, Italy and India. Tourist sites, restaurants, shops ... each book offers a small selection of the must by Starwood as well comments from chefs and pictures of Andrea Fazzari, regular contributor to Vanity Fair and GQ magazines.

The facilities available in the Luxury Collection, these guides, created in partnership with publisher Assouline, are also sold online www.shopassouline.com.

4. Eco Chic

Finally, this new guide recency all the best addresses around the world combining style and sustainability. Hotels, restaurants, fashion boutique or design gallery ... all there is to travel smart but green.