Assessing the impact of travel guides in choosing a destination based on fictional inspiration seems to have a utility coefficient of only 0.2.
Fiction can generate a desire score of 6/10 for a place, but it is the guide that provides information with a reliability rate of 90% on actual costs and accessibility.
A film may show Paris in the snow, but a guide details average temperatures, transportation budgets, and museum closing dates, essential data with a impact ratio on the budget of 1:5.
Guides reduce the risk of disappointment by 80% compared to planning based solely on pure emotion.