Footprint are the 'numero uno' publishers of travel guides to Latin America.
Their 'flagship' guidebook, the South American Handbook, has been published annually for the last 77 years and is the longest running guide in the English language. In addition to this guide to whole continent they also publish guides to the individual countries of South America - Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela. There are about twenty people based in the world heritage city of Bath, England working on editorial aspects, production, sales and marketing headed up by James and Patrick Dawson, the brothers who set up the publishing company . This is also where the thousands of emails and letters Footprint receive each year from travelers are handled. As the series grows the numbers of writers working with Footprint is always on the increase.