Please sign in to post.

Writing the first Lonely Planet Thailand travel guide

Posted by (Minnesota 🎒) on

As a LP Thorn Tree member - a forum sadly experiencing its own form of COVID-19 lockdown - I thought this was an interesting look at researching/writing a guidebook to inspire and assist, to quote the author, "independent culture freaks" to explore a developing country, economically and close to the ground, in the early '80's.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/joe-cummings-lonely-planet-thailand/index.html

Posted by
1980 posts

Thank you for positing this very interesting article. I really enjoyed it. I use Lonely Planet a lot but didn’t know any thing about its humble beginnings.

Posted by
5553 posts

The strangest thing about Lonely Planet is why the BBC ever considered it was a good fit to buy it, although the timing was bad being in 2007.

This topic has been automatically closed due to a period of inactivity.