Lonely Planet blog Category: Behind the scenes

Lonely Planet meets Layar: bridging the print-digital divide

admin Lonely Planet author

Once a book is printed, it’s printed – nothing changes without a reprint. But what if you could add contextual digital content to enhance the book with real-time information on the fly? We’re experimenting with just that in partnership with Layar, a free augmented reality app available on Apple iOS and Android devices. To start,…

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Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures coming to Travel Channel

admin Lonely Planet author

Lonely Planet has been producing travel-related television shows for over 10 years, but we’re especially excited about our latest and doubly happy to be able to announce the upcoming US premiere of the new television series Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures on Travel Channel. Based on the Lonely Planet book of the same name, this…

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Smile! Lonely Planet’s guide to Happy travelling

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We travel for many reasons. Some people do it for strict business needs, others to see their loved ones and most of us for the sheer pleasure of getting away from the mundane and discovering new sights and adventures. The Lonely Planet offices, unsurprisingly, are full of people with hundreds of travel stories to share,…

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Introducing our new local Chinese guides

Matt Goldberg Lonely Planet author

Lonely Planet is proud to announce the launch of a new guidebook series – produced in Chinese by Chinese authors for domestic Chinese travellers. Today, Lonely Planet guidebooks are the most popular series in China for international destinations, with close to 50 titles available in Chinese. We cover Europe, the USA and Southeast Asia, as well as…

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Thorn Tree and beyond: networking travellers

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

I’m the Community Manager for Lonely Planet’s diverse and ever-evolving online community (communitIES, really) – a vibrant, challenging, tendrillar creature! This is the first of many posts about what goes on in our community, designed to give you insights about the way we manage our traveller interactions and let you know about stuff in the works.

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Website technology success part 2: the process

Nigel Dalton Lonely Planet author

It is the fantasy of every business sponsor that IT projects might one-day behave more like their buttoned-down legal or sales projects. They go so predictably! Spend days (or months) up-front ritually drafting and negotiating a detailed contract that covers every possible role, responsibility and remedy for a failed outcome. Produce a 3cm thick document…

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