I would like a list of all travel guide book companies (Lonely Planet,
Routard, Brandt). Any and all languages.

Hi nifty13,

As you indicated in your comment, it's difficult (perhaps impossible)
to find a completely comprehensive list of travel guide book
companies.  However, I believe that you will be pleased with this set
of lists, which include at least a couple of hundred travel guide book
companies:

"Travel Publishers"
Yahoo! Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Publishers/Travel/

"Map & Travel Publishers"
AcqWeb
http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/pubr/map.html

"Participants in Travel Publishers Association's Events"
Travel Publishers Association
http://www.travelpubs.com/publishers.html

"Directory of Non-Fiction Publishers : Travel - Guides"
WriteWords
http://www.writewords.org.uk/directory/level3_pages.asp?directory_sub_type2_id=530&directory_sub_type_id=530

"Travel Publishers"
BookWire
http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/publishers/Travel-Publishers.html

"Comparatif des Guides de voyage" (14 mars 2005)
Around the Worlds
http://www.aroundtheworlds.com/francais/guides_de_voyage_classement.htm

"Welke reisgids gebruiken ?"
Vakantiegenoegens
http://www.vakantiegenoegens.be/infoplein/Reisgidsen.htm

You might also be interested in this list of travel book and map publishers:

"Reisgidsen & Cartografie" [towards bottom of page]
Amerigo.nl
http://www.uitgeverij-nas.nl/uitgevers.html

See also:

"Le Guide"
Gulliver
http://www.gullivertravelbooks.it/vetrina.asp?key1=guide

Please let me know if you need any clarification of this answer.

- justaskscott


Search strategy --

Searched on Google and Yahoo! for various combinations of these terms
(sometimes as phrases, and sometimes in plural form):

[individual publisher names]
travel
guide
guidebook
directory
book
bookstore
store
publishers
publishing

Questions asking for "all" of anything often remain unanswered, since
it is usually difficult or impossible to satisfy such a request. You
may be more likely to get a response if you ask for a list of a
specified size. Increasing your price may also enhance your chances of
getting an answer. Quite frankly, at your current price, a Researcher
might be expected to search for fifteen minutes or so, which isn't
likely to produce much.

Yeah - I though about both of those things right after I posted the
question.  In fact, I'm not even sure how to ask it, but will try to
reformat it and up the price later today.  Thanks for the advice.