2007 Lowell Thomas Award Winners

By Nicholas | October 11th, 2007 |

The results are in for the Society of American Travel Writer’s 2007 Lowell Thomas Awards. This year the record high 1,490 entries submitted for categories such as Travel Jourmalist of... [Read this entry]

BBC buys Lonely Planet

By Nicholas | October 2nd, 2007 |

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Big news for whoever missed it. Yesterday, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) purchased the world’s largest guidebook publisher Lonely Planet. The deal is reportedly worth $200 million and founders Tony... [Read this entry]

Interviews

By Nicholas | September 6th, 2007 |

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Sorry it’s been awhile. I’ve been drowning in work and having things to do for my brother’s wedding, which was last Saturday, so I haven’t had a chance to post.... [Read this entry]

Lonely Planet’s Pick & Mix

By Nicholas | August 24th, 2007 |

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Guidebooks in PDF format have been around for awhile and I’ve never found them much of use. I have a couple of guides from various publishers stuck in a folder... [Read this entry]

Write for Lonely Planet…

By Abha | August 9th, 2007 |

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…on FACEBOOK.
Yes, oh my goodness - everyones on it! It seems to be invading the Internet by becoming this super informative portal where you can interact with anyone and... [Read this entry]

The World’s Best Mexican Beach Resorts

By Nicholas | July 30th, 2007 |

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I love the Travel Channel, but The World’s Best Mexican Travel Resorts was actually the title of a show that I caught the other day. Oddly enough, all of the... [Read this entry]

Guardian’s Weekly Top 10 Travel Blogs

By Abha | July 24th, 2007 |

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So the Guardian has a new travel-blog spy on board - Benji Lanyado. Looks like the Guardian is diverting new focus to the blogosphere, and this dude is doing the... [Read this entry]

New Perceptive Travel

By Nicholas | July 5th, 2007 |

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Perceptive Travel has released its latest issue, July/August. The ezine is published by World’s Cheapest Destinations author Tim Leffel and features the work of travel (and other) writers with at... [Read this entry]

Symphony space Travel Tales

By Nicholas | June 24th, 2007 |

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Symphony Space was kind enough to send us a copy of their new Travel Tales compact disc collection so I thought I’d share it with everyone.
The collection is made... [Read this entry]

Wow Wow Wee Waa; Borat to pen Travel Guide

By Nicholas | June 15th, 2007 |

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As the author to a few guidebooks, maybe I should be somewhat offended by this, but for some reason I want to buy it. Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (AKA British... [Read this entry]

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