DHAKA: A good travel tip is one that is not just up-to-date but also private. The travel tips you read in popular books and magazines are often more a like a tip sheet for which places will soon be overrun and ruined.

In this respect, guidebooks (and other publications and programs acting as guides) are the asphalt of the beaten path, reports huffingtonpost.com.

Instead, try this guide author technique to find a tourist-free, authentic experience: use Google Translate to search the local newspaper and spot a recent restaurant, hotel, or show review and go there, the report added.

Or, according to them, ask the breakfast waiter at your hotel for a tip instead of the concierge or front desk staff, who are likely to hand out the same tips to hundreds of guests.

It will relax you than being bored over going a place in a rash hour.

Moreover, by the time a restaurant or hotel finds its way into a popular guide, the prices may go up, the quality (or ownership) may change, and the guidebook author's experience may be hard to replicate.

In such cases, it's better to have been there when the guidebook author passed through.

BDST: 1202 HRS, NOV 19, 2014