Travel: Departures: Your chosen guide

THE top 10 best-selling guidebooks so far this year (the list covers sales since the start of 1994, so books published in the past few months are at a disadvantage):

1. Red Guide - France 1994 (Michelin, pounds 12.95).

2. India: a Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet, pounds 14.95).

3. Central Asia (Cadogan, pounds 12.99).

4. Jordan and Syria: a Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet, pounds 8.95).

5. Vietnam: a Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet, pounds 9.95).

6. Travellers' Survival Kit: Cuba (Vacation Work, pounds 9.95).

7. Red Guide - Italy (Michelin, pounds 13.95).

8. France 1994 (Gault Millau, pounds 23.75).

9. Eyewitness Guide: Paris (Dorling Kindersley, pounds 14.99).

10. Rough Guide to Italy (Penguin, pounds 12.99).

Information supplied by Daunt Books for Travellers, 83 Marylebone High Street, London W1M 3DE (071-224 2295).