The State of the Lonely Planet

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  11.14.02 | 12:32 AM ET

Tony Wheeler, founder of the Lonely Planet travel publishing empire, surveys the state of travel around the globe—post 9/11, post Bali attack—and finds plenty of places to avoid, and plenty worthy of a visit, too. 

“I feel sorry for governments having to put out warnings to travellers - it smacks of that old line about the economist who accurately predicted nine of the last five stockmarket downturns,” he writes in the Sydney Morning Herald this week. “If you keep crying wolf often enough eventually one is bound to turn up.”

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