- Born Name: Burton Holmes
- Birthday: 1870-01-08 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Medium: travel lecturer
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Burton Holmes, Wongudan in Seoul, Korea. Photographed by Burton Holmes in 1925, digitally restored.Burton Holmes (1870–1958) was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term travelogue.Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures.[citation needed]