Lonely Planet Lays off 75 Employees
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.21.02 | 10:01 PM ET
You wouldn’t know it traveling around Asia these days, where every cargo-pant-wearing backpacker trudging into a roach-infested hostel is clutching a Lonely Planet guidebook, but the venerable indie travel publisher is suffering. LP announced this week that it is laying off 75 employees, or roughly 15 percent of its workforce, as a result of the lagging economy. Most of the cuts will be made at the company’s Oakland offices, where 152 people work as editors, designers and map makers, according to an Associated Press report. The move apparently will not affect the number of guidebooks published, so you’ll still be able to get the latest on Zimbabwe budget accommodations.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
