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I've got a friend visiting New York this week for the very first time, and in advance of her visit, I road-tested a few guides to see which might work best to use during her short stay. For the rest of this week, I'll feature the NYC versions of ...

The I Love NY tourism slogan turns thirty in 2007, so to honor this great state, I'll be highlighting a variety of travel books related to New York all week. Since I currently live in New York State and work in New York City, I've managed to ...

I think it's safe to say that Maureen Wheeler is the mother of the modern-day travel guide. Her publishing partnership with husband Tony has created a company that continues to inspire, guide and connect travelers worldwide. Through the years, ...

Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler are kicking off a two week book tour of the US with an appearance at Book Expo in New York City today. They will then continue on with a series of events at bookstores and other venues from Boston to ...

My name is Matthew Firestone, and I am a freelance writer for Lonely Planet. Or should I say BBC Worldwide? Today, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, who founded Lonely Planet in 1972, sold majority control of the company to BBC Worldwide. "We felt that ...

You've heard by now that the founders of the Lonely Planet recently sold the majority share of their company to BBC Worldwide. But what's next for Tony and Maureen Wheeler? What else -- travel. And with £45million in their bank account from the ...

Lonely Planet co-founder and current head Tony Wheeler definitely gets his fair amount of press. We've already mentioned one interview he had a while back, and here is a more recent one with the Associated Press. In this interview, we quickly learn ...

At what point did Lonely Planet become National Geographic? I just got my hands on two recent publications from what was once a small guidebook company specializing in Southeast Asia. The Africa Book and The Asia Book are the latest endeavors into ...

Lonely Planet recently launched lonelyplanet.tv, a new website packed with travel footage shot by Lonely Planet TV -- like the excellent overviews of Mumbai and Berlin -- as well as uploaded by independent travelers -- see, for example, the clip of ...

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Earlier this week I posted the announcement of a new initiative by Lonely Planet and Nokia to bring the famous travel guides to GPS enabled Nokia phones. One of the big questions I had, is whether these new phone based guides could actually replace ...

Here's something which many Down Under might agree on: Lonely Planet survey results show the land of kangaroos and koalas to be the favorite of independent travlers, according to CNN. Australia ranked first in both future and past ...

Traveling can be political, and as reported by the BBC last September, guidebooks even more so. The current political situation in Burma is so highly charged that Britain's Trade Union Congress (TUC) is asking travelers to stop buying Lonely Planet's ...

Most people who have taken guidebooks on the road realize that they're bound to contain a few inaccuracies. But did you ever consider that the guidebook's author had never even been to the place he wrote about? An Australian newspaper reported this ...