Happy Birthday Lonely Planet
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.07.03 | 9:16 PM ET
The venerated guidebook publisher celebrates its 30th anniversary this month. It’s hard to overstate the impact Lonely Planet has had on world travel. But how, exactly, have the guidebooks changed over the last 30 years? “We used to put in things like, ‘If you get to this island in Indonesia, walk down the main street to the docks, turn left, there’s a house there and a man called Wayan, and he’ll take you…’” co-founder Maureen Wheeler says in an anniversary interview on LonelyPlanet.com. “We can’t put that in now, because there might be 20,000 people coming through, all looking for Wayan.” Yikes! I hope Wayan appreciates Lonely Planet’s editorial restraint.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
