In Your Pocket City Guides

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In Your Pocket (IYP) is one of Europe's leading city guide publishers. In Your Pocket publishes city guides to over 40 destinations in Europe from Belfast to Bucharest, from Tallinn to Tirana and St. Petersburg to Sofia.

Distributed locally mainly in hotels and newsstands the entire content of the guides can also be downloaded from their website free of charge.

Vilnius In Your Pocket N°75

Hamburg In Your Pocket N°1

The first In Your Pocket city guide, Vilnius In Your Pocket was written in late 1991 by German journalist Matthias Lüfkens and Belgian brothers George, Oliver and Nicolas Ortiz in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Since then the four founders have franchised the In Your Pocket guides in 18 countries covering key tourist capitals as well as obscure off-beat destinations such as Belfast, Berlin, Braşov, Bucharest, Budapest, Cesky Krumlov, Derry, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Gdynia, Haapsalu, Kaliningrad, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Kraków, Kyiv, Leipzig, Liepaja, Łódź, Lviv, Minsk, Munich, Narva, Odessa, Palanga, Pärnu, Peja, Poiana Braşov, Poznan, Prague, Pristina, Prizren, Riga, Rijeka, Shkodra, Siauliai, Sofia, Sopot, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Tarnów, Tartu, Tirana, Vilnius, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zadar and Zagreb

In June 2006 In Your Pocket published print and online city guides to all the Football World Cup venues in Germany such as Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern and Gelsenkirchen.

In November 2006 In Your Pocket published the first English-language guide to Kosovo's capital Pristina and Macedonia's capital Skopje not with the aim to increase tourism but merely to provide honest, critical information that makes getting around the city easier for newcomers.

The lively, honest and critical style has received consistent praise from, among others, ‘‘The Wall Street Journal’’, ‘‘The New York Times’’, ‘‘The Guardian’’, ‘‘The Times’’ and ‘‘The Sunday Times’’, the ‘‘BBC’’, ‘‘Rough Guides’’ and ‘‘Lonely Planet’’.

The In Your Pocket guides - updated every two months - have attracted a massive cult following in Eastern Europe and are often used by travellers in conjunction with traditional travel guides.