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Our story Focus Guides was set up by Andrew Sanger in 1994 as an online travel bookstore, selling guidebooks at reduced prices, with free postage. At the time, there was little competition and sales were brisk. He later added the WebSight pages, a directory of travel websites, gradually adding any useful sites that he came across in his work as a writer of travel guides and articles. With the growing success of major online bookseller Amazon.com, and subsequently Amazon.co.uk, who were offering larger discounts and faster delivery, Focus Guides became less viable, and opted to become an online retailer for the UK books wholesaler Gardeners. But eventually Amazon's progress made even this unfeasible. In October 2009, Focus Guides relaunched, gradually building a range of one-page travel guides to a small number of destinations personally visited, researched and updated by Andrew Sanger. Our plans More of the one-page guides to cities, islands and resorts are being added at a leisurely pace. All our guides are free to use or print. Our income comes from pay-per-click Google advertising and links to recommended guidebooks purchased from Amazon.
For the time
being, we're keeping the WebSight directory online, even though we
haven't updated it since 2009, as most of the links are still
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