Jan 28th, 2012 at 11:00AM: On a recent extended trip to Phnom Penh, I decided to bring along my trusty five-pound Southeast Asia on a Shoestring guide from Lonely Planet. Big mistake. In a city changing as quickly as Cambodia's capital, I found that nearly all of the information had become dated and irrelevant. Nearly half of the recommended restaurants had gone out of business, and the budget guesthouses, experiencing the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Jan 28th, 2012 at 11:00AM: On a recent extended trip to Phnom Penh, I decided to bring along my trusty five-pound Southeast Asia on a Shoestring guide from Lonely Planet. Big mistake. In a city changing as quickly as Cambodia's capital, I found that nearly all of the information had become dated and irrelevant. Nearly half of the recommended restaurants had gone out of business, and the budget guesthouses, experiencing the ...Get Lonely Planet's 2012 travel guide free this week at Starbucks
Jan 11th, 2012 at 9:00AM: Planning a trip for 2012? We'd suggest you do it over a Starbucks coffee this week. The chain's weekly iTunes' "Pick of the Week" cards are featuring a redemption code to download Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2012 from the iBookstore for free.
Featuring Lonely Planet's top places to visit and experiences for 2012, this full-color eBook can only help guide your travel planning for the upcoming ...Win the trip of a lifetime from Lonely Planet and Bing
Dec 27th, 2011 at 9:00AM: Your dream vacation could become a reality through a new holiday sweepstakes hosted by Bing and sponsored by Lonely Planet.
The Grand Prize winner and a guest will work with Lonely Planet staff and authors to devise a customized 15 day/14 night itinerary exploring up to four destinations around the world, up to a value of $30,000.
The sweepstakes kicks off on December 29th at midnight PT/3 ...Lonely Planet launches Wenzani travel app for iPhone and iPod touch
Dec 6th, 2011 at 9:00AM: Travel guide favorite Lonely Planet has joined the app game with the launch today of Wenzani, a free app for for the iPhone and iPod touch. Wenzani - a Zulu greeting which means "what are you doing?"- brings together recommendations from Lonely Planet and other top travel publishers along with local experts, and users' social networks.
"It's creating a personalized guide on-the-go," said Jenny ...Lonely Planet names top 10 cities for 2012
Nov 3rd, 2011 at 8:00AM: Earlier this week popular travel guide publisher Lonely Planet announced their selections for the top 10 cities to visit in 2012, with a few obvious choices making the list. For example, London, which will host the 2012 Olympic Games, was unsurprisingly given a nod, while Hong Kong and Orlando, two perennially popular destinations, earned the distinction as well. Other cities making their way into ...Major tourist site restored in Herat, Afghanistan. Please send me there!
Oct 19th, 2011 at 3:00PM:
While Afghanistan may not be high on your places-to-go list, the government is trying hard to offer more sightseeing opportunities.
A giant citadel overlooking the city of Herat has just reopened after several years and $2.4 million of restoration. The citadel dates back to when Alexander the Great's armies marched across Afghanistan on their way to India in 330 BC. It was used by a ...Interesting indoor spaces around the world
Oct 4th, 2011 at 5:00PM: I love the outdoors, to the extent that I tend to bypass or overlook exceptional indoor spaces when I'm traveling or recounting a great trip. Fortunately, Lonely Planet author/former Gadling contributor Leif Pettersen's recent list on LP's website has reminded me that---as many a grandmother has said---beauty is on the inside.
Pettersen says only in recent years has he developed a special ...Lonely Planet dishes out summer travel tips and chance at a Napa Valley trip
May 26th, 2011 at 3:00PM:
Summer is fast approaching and sure to fly by even more quickly than it came. To help Americans get the most out of the summer months, Lonely Planet has launched a special micro-site called "Weekends of Summer" that has 15 free guides for all the weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The guides reads like a summer to-do list, with suggestions like "pop a cork" and "explore the great ...Sesame Street helps kick off summer travel season
May 2nd, 2011 at 12:30PM: Does Cookie Monster have to buy two seats? Does Elmo travel carry-on only? You can ask them yourself this week as several Sesame Street characters appear at US airports this week to kick off summer travel with Delta Airlines.
Today, Elmo and Cookie Monster will be making gate announcements and welcoming travelers to Minneapolis-St Paul Airport, before meeting up with Grover at La Guardia on ...Space tourism celebrates tenth anniversary
Apr 30th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
Space tourism is ten years old this week. On 28 April 2001 millionaire Dennis Tito became the first person to go into space as a tourist and not an astronaut or scientist.
In an interview with BBC today he talked about how thrilled he was and called his eight days being in orbit "paradise."
While space tourism is the ultimate in high-cost adventure travel--only seven people have done it so ...Where are all the travel guide apps for Android?
Mar 25th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Nearly two years ago, I bought my first smartphone: the T-Mobile Android MyTouch*. I'm only occasionally jealous of my iPhone-carrying friends, as I find few travel guide apps for Android. Even after a move to Istanbul, I still use and rely upon it daily; Android's interface is fast and easy-to-use, and seamless use of Google applications like Gmail and Google Maps is part of the reason I bought ...Useful foreign phrases, Part 1: how to say, "I'm just looking" in 10 languages
Mar 24th, 2011 at 12:00PM: I've frequently pimped Lonely Planet's Phrasebooks on this site, but I swear I don't get kickbacks from the company. It's just that I'm a big believer in not being a). A Tourist (although, let's face it, if I'm not at home, I am indeed A Tourist) and b). helpless.
Even if you're the biggest xenophobe on earth--which would make foreign travel a really weird and pointless pastime you might want ...Lonely Planet North American city guides free till February 4
Feb 2nd, 2011 at 11:30AM: To help stranded travelers navigate their way around a strange city during "snowmageddon 2011", Lonely Planet has dropped the price on its North American city guides to $0.
The 13 different free guides cover most major cities in the US and Canada and are all available in the iTunes App Store.
San Francisco
New York City
Boston
Washington DC
Chicago
Seattle
New ...Lonely Planet maps the future: a conversation with CEO Matt Goldberg
Jan 17th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Matt Goldberg joined Lonely Planet as CEO in March 2009. Before joining Lonely Planet, he was senior vice president of digital strategy and operations for Dow Jones & Company in New York, where his responsibilities included leading business operations for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. I spoke with him in November.
DG: Why did you move to Lonely Planet?
MG: First of all, to ...Merry Christmas from Lonely Planet: 13 free iPhone city guides
Dec 20th, 2010 at 11:30PM:
Lonely Planet just unwrapped an early Christmas present for us all - 13 of their popular iPhone city guides went from $9.99 to $0. The guides are on sale until 1PM December 23rd, so grab them while you can - and remember, even if you don't need them right away, once purchased, you'll always have access to them for free.
Here are the 13 guides (iTunes store links): ...Book review: A Moveable Feast
Dec 13th, 2010 at 11:00AM: When did the words travel and food become one and the same? These days, food tourism has worked its way to the tip of every well-heeled traveler's tongue, whether it's a search for Hong Kong's best wonton noodles on foodie-travel favorite website Chowhound or the neverending food voyeurism of Travel Channel favorites Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern. It's at exactly this zenith of food-focused ..."The Tourist": Is it worth the trip?
Dec 10th, 2010 at 5:00PM: At the beginning of the new movie "The Tourist," a mild-mannered American schoolteacher is sitting alone on a train from Paris to Venice. A mysterious and beautiful English woman approaches him, sits in the open seat across from him, and engages him in conversation. Soon they're drinking wine and flirting over an elegant dinner on the train.
When they arrive in Venice, they are briefly ...Grantourismo blogger on guidebooks and travel writing
Nov 30th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Last week I posted a Q & A with blogger Lara Dunston and her husband and partner Terence Carter about their travel project and blog Grantourismo. In addition to good advice about renting a vacation apartment and getting "under the skin" of a place when traveling, they had a lot of interesting things to say about guidebooks, both from their experiences writing them and how they see travelers ...Ten things to know about your destination before you go
Nov 18th, 2010 at 10:00AM: So you've chosen your vacation destination - booked the tickets, agonized over TripAdvisor to find a hotel, and bought the guidebooks or downloaded the apps. Whether you like to plan your itinerary in advance or play it by ear, there are a few things you should research in advance to make your arrival - and your trip - go smoothly.
From airport taxis to local laws to transit passes, what should ...Online travel research made simple on Wanderfly.com
Oct 20th, 2010 at 2:30PM: With so many travel review sites available, it's often overwhelming to sort through published material about a property or destination. We've recently discovered Wanderfly.com, launched out of beta earlier this week. The site promises to provide travel recommendations targeted to budget, date and interest in as few as five clicks.
"On average, travelers spend 7 weeks visiting 25 sites* before ...
