Wednesday 10 September – 730 pm – The British edition of The Lonely Planet Story will be launched at Stanford Bookshop at Long Acre, Covent Garden in London.

Saturday 13 September – TNT Winter Travel Show – I’ll be speaking at this travel show at the Royal Horticultural Halls & Conference Centre at Westminster in London. Time to be confirmed.

More September events – There will be more appearances around the UK, details to follow.

29 Monday 29 September to Thursday 2 October – The Gros Morne International Summit on Sustainable Tourism will take place at Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada and I’ll be there.

Tuesday 14 to Sunday 19 October – Maureen and I will be in Bali for the Ubud Writers Festival along with a stellar cast of international writers. We went to the very first Ubud Writers Festival in 2004 and it's developed into a much loved event in the subsequent years.

with Bill Dalton, author of Indonesia Handbook, and LP author Ryan Ver Berkmoes in Ubud in 2004.