Should travelers lament the change of favorite destinations?

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Denis Gray is a longtime friend, and I just wanted to point out that his comment was tongue in cheek.

It wasn't Lonely Planet that brought people to Pai, it was word of mouth. I wrote barely a paragraph about Pai and that wasn't till the late 80s. I've been going there regularly since 1981. It didn't begin to explode till about three years ago, over 10 years after I began writing about the place.

It's a fallacy to presume that because X traveller arrives in a city carrying an LP guide, that it was the guidebook that brought him there.

At any rate even one could demonstrate that LP had that kind of power - and I don't think you can - it was inevitable that a place like Pai would be 'discovered'.

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