"Maureen Wheeler Maureen Wheeler, , is a Northern Irish-Australian businesswoman, who co-founded Lonely Planet with her husband Tony Wheeler. Wheeler was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to London at the age 20, where she met her future husband, Tony Wheeler on a park bench in London on 7 October 1970. She travelled with Tony on an overland journey from London through Europe and Asia, then on to Australia. That trip resulted in a guidebook ""Across Asia on the Cheap"" and laid the foundations of the travel publisher Lonely Planet. In a backstreet hotel in Singapore in early 1975"
"Cheap"", consisting of 94 pages, was written by the couple in their home. The original print run consisted of stapled booklets and sold out. Following the success of the original booklet, Tony Wheeler returned to Asia with the deliberate intention of writing a travel guide and ""Across Asia on the Cheap: A Complete Guide to Making the Overland Trip"" was published in 1975. In October 2007 ""Observer"" writer Carol Cadwalladr—who also coauthored ""Travellers' Survival Kit Lebanon""—described the book as ""canonical"". ""Across Asia on the Cheap"" offered the advice of amateur travelers who had completed the overland trip from London to"
"During the 1970s, traveling was considered an aspect of the counterculture and Tony Wheeler said in 2013: ""The boomers were setting off to places their parents hadn't gone."" What became known as the ""hippie trail"" was a popular route for such travelers, as the price of travel dropped and numerous Asian travel companies were launched. Cadwalladr explained in 2007 that the introduction of the ""Across Asia on the Cheap"" booklet was ""a generational call to arms"", as it contained Tony Wheeler's motivational cry: ""All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over. So go."""
"Melbourne in 1972 with 27 cents between them, and put out their first book, ""Across Asia on the Cheap"", from their kitchen table in 1973. This would grow into the Lonely Planet empire, a name derived from a misheard Joe Cocker song (the lyric was, in fact, ""Lovely Planet""). The Wheelers always saw Lonely Planet as a business, yet it took a while to become successful – in 1975, Maureen had to work to support the couple. Yet in 1980, the publication of a guidebook to India effectively doubled the size of the company. BBC Worldwide bought 75 percent of"
"Out in Canada Out In Canada is a travel magazine focused on gay and lesbian tourism, also known as LGBT tourism, exclusively within Canada. The magazine is printed twice yearly, and is distributed free in gay villages across North America. ""Out In Canada"" is edited by Randall Shirley and owned by Out in Canada Inc., a Toronto-based company founded by lawyer and journalist Glenn Wheeler and group of other investors in 2006. Wheeler, who is also publisher of the magazine and website, was associate editor of the Toronto-based urban weekly ""NOW"" before becoming a lawyer. In 2007, journalist Margaret Webb"
"Jenny Wheeler Jennifer Sylvia ""Jenny"" Wheeler is an Auckland newspaper journalist, magazine editor, author and company director, born in Thames 21 December 1946. She was founding editor of the ""Sunday Star"" newspaper (1987–1993) and ""NZ House & Garden"" magazine, (1993–94) and the first woman editor of the ""New Zealand Listener"", (1994–1997). From 1997 with partner the late Tim Bickerstaff she was a director of Happy Families Ltd and then Intenza NZ Ltd marketing honey and herbal health supplements including Herbal Ignite. She sold the company in 2015 and is now working as a novelist and podcaster. The eldest of four"
"Trailblazer Travel Books Trailblazer Travel Books a series of five recreational guides for the Hawaiian Islands plus one each for Sierra Nevada, and San Francisco. They are published by California-based Diamond Valley Company and written by Janine and Jerry Sprout. In 2012, they published ""No Worries Paris: A Photographic Walking Guide."" Janine Sprout is of French heritage and has photographed the city over a period of decades. It should not be confused with the UK travel book publisher Trailblazer. The guides are aimed at the independent, adventurous travelers. The Sprouts have spent years developing the content and publish revised or"
"The Traveler (magazine) The Traveler, () named ""World Traveler"" in English, is a monthly tourism magazine published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. The target readers of ""The Traveler"" are the middle class in China. It was founded in Shanghai in 2000. ""The Traveler"" is the only member among Chinese tourism magazines in the Journal of the Association of the United States. It publishes primarily in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and two Special Administrative Regions. ""The Traveler"" publishes mainly journeys, business trips, top 10 lists and other columns. Its columnists include Ma Modu, Chen Danyan, and Jeremy Clarkson."
"The Traveler (magazine) The Traveler, () named ""World Traveler"" in English, is a monthly tourism magazine published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. The target readers of ""The Traveler"" are the middle class in China. It was founded in Shanghai in 2000. ""The Traveler"" is the only member among Chinese tourism magazines in the Journal of the Association of the United States. It publishes primarily in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and two Special Administrative Regions. ""The Traveler"" publishes mainly journeys, business trips, top 10 lists and other columns. Its columnists include Ma Modu, Chen Danyan, and Jeremy Clarkson."
"received a Northern Lights Award (one of only 13 annually) for her ""Out In Canada"" lesbian travel story about ice wines and travel in Canada's Niagara Region, presented by the Canadian Tourism Commission. Out in Canada Out In Canada is a travel magazine focused on gay and lesbian tourism, also known as LGBT tourism, exclusively within Canada. The magazine is printed twice yearly, and is distributed free in gay villages across North America. ""Out In Canada"" is edited by Randall Shirley and owned by Out in Canada Inc., a Toronto-based company founded by lawyer and journalist Glenn Wheeler and group"
"just look for travel book writers because they weren’t out there. There wasn’t such an animal. We just told people that if you turn up in a year and a half with a book, we’ll publish it, and we did. It was very rough and ready."" The popularity of the overland route taken by the Wheelers in 1972 declined when Iran's borders closed in 1979. The Lonely Planet guide book series initially expanded in Asia, with the India guide book that was first published in 1981, but progressively became a dominant brand in the rest of the world, as consumers"
"book titled ""Once While Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story"" (known as ""Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet story"" in North America), describing their relationship, their initial overland journey and the founding of Lonely Planet. Slatyer was the CEO of Lonely Planet at the time and, in addition to the Melbourne headquarters, offices existed in the U.S. and the U.K. The company was publishing 500 titles and the ""next level"" that the Wheelers referred to involved ventures such as the production of the third season of its flagship television series, ""Lonely Planet Six Degrees""—in partnership with Discovery Networks and screened in over"
"subscription-based information and advice site solely for travel agents. It provides unbiased reviews of hotels and tourism facilities in more than 230 countries. ""Travel Weekly"" was first published in 1969 as ""Travel News"". It is owned by Travel Weekly Group, whose founder and chairman, Clive Jacobs, acquired it from Reed Business Information in 2009. It has a close association with ""Caterer and Hotelkeeper"", which is also majority-owned by Jacobs and based at the same address. ""Travel Weekly"" has a team of about 50 and is based in Victoria, London, UK. Travel Weekly (UK) Travel Weekly is a business magazine and"
"self-publishers of this group joined together in 1984/1985 and created the ""Verlegergemeinschaft Individuelles Reisen e. V."" (VIR) (""Publishers' community individual travel company"") with Helmut Hermann, Edgar Hoff, Peter Rump, Sigrid & wil Tondok and in 1976 they founded Peter Meyer Verlag. From this emerged the ""Verlagsgruppe Reise Know-How"" (""travel know-how publishing group""). Peter Meyer Verlag acts again independently since 1991 and was the first who provided his travel books with handle brands worldwide. The members Udo Schwark and Gisela Walther were the first to translate the ""Lonely Planet"" travel guide from English and moved to the Gisela Walther Verlag in"
"he discussed his life and career. The episodes were well received, and Wheeler became a close friend of the show's producer, David Collison. In the 1970s, Wheeler became increasingly forgetful and came to rely largely on his assistant, Molly Myres, to organise his affairs. Amid increasing ill health, in September 1973 he moved full-time into Myres's house in Leatherhead, Surrey, although he continued to use his central London flat during day-trips to the city. There, he authored a final book, ""My Archaeological Mission to India and Pakistan"", although much of the text was culled from his previous publications; it was"
"traveling public 1,277 unique titles.[6] In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ""Collection of British and American Authors"", a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Fictional series typically share a common setting, story arc, set of characters or timeline. They are common in genre fiction, particularly crime fiction, adventure fiction, and science fiction, as well as in children's literature. Some works in"
"Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast. The magazine has won 25 National Magazine Awards. The Condé Nast unit of Advance Publications purchased ""Signature"", a magazine for Diners Club members, for $25 million in 1986. The company used it as the basis for ""Condé Nast Traveler"", led by Sir Harold Evans in 1987, with a focus on literary journalism and hard news reporting. As editor in chief, Evans coined the motto ""Truth in Travel,"" which declared that travel industry freebies would not be accepted. ""Condé Nast Traveler"" is currently led"
"in the same edition included British author and journalist Vivien Goldman, and American author and co-editor of ""The Believer"" magazine, Heidi Julavits. From 2008, the publication moved online as part of Artinfo. Culture+Travel Culture+Travel (formerly ""Culture & Travel"") is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York. Published by Louise Blouin Media and founded by former Conde Nast editorial director James Truman, it was launched in 2006 as a bi-monthly print magazine. It was later incorporated into art and lifestyle media ""Artinfo.com"", and relaunched as an online publication in 2014, providing original articles and travel destination guides. Print"
"of the early 1970s across America more as an expression of freedom than an air sport. Popularity was further fueled by the distribution of specialized international publications such as the ""Low & Slow"" magazine founded in 1971, ""Hang Glider Weekly"" and ""Ground Skimmer"" in 1972 and ""Glider Rider"" in 1975. Hang gliding was simultaneously promoted by major international publications such as ""Popular Mechanics"", ""Popular Science"" and the ""Life"" magazine, all three magazines distributed worldwide in 1971; the ""Sky Riders"" hang gliding movie was released in 1976 with a powerful effect. The British ""SkyWings"" magazine has been published monthly since 1975"
"and Facebook presence. Its main website features news articles and analysis, videos, photos, interviews, opinion pieces and other items that are geared toward travel agents and executives on the sales and marketing end of the travel business. Northstar Travel Media is the parent company of the newspaper. Travel Weekly was launched in 1958 in New York City by Irwin Robinson, the editor and publisher. The newspaper combined two previous publications, Travel Items and Travel Courier. The first issue of Travel Weekly was published on October 21, 1958. Travel Weekly Travel Weekly (1958) is a United States national newspaper for the"
"Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York. Published 12 times a year, it has 4.8 million readers, according to its corporate media kit. It is owned and published by Meredith Corporation. Its main competitors are ""Condé Nast Traveler"" and ""National Geographic Traveler"". Initially published in 1937 as ""U.S. Camera and Travel"", the magazine later assumed the name ""Travel + Leisure"" in 1971. The predecessor titles focused on travel photography, but the name change signaled a shift toward travel coverage in general. The magazine specializes in leisure travel and often features"
"facts"". In a 2012 BBC Radio 4 series: ""To Strive and Seek"", she told the personal stories of five various members of the Terra Nova Expedition. ""O My America!: Second Acts in a New World"" records the lives of women who travelled to America in the first half of the 19th century: Fanny Trollope, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau, Rebecca Burlend, Isabella Bird, and Catherine Hubback, and the author's travels in pursuit of them. Sara Wheeler Sara Diane Wheeler FRSL (born 20 March 1961) is a British travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions. Sara Wheeler was"
"""Walk Magazine"" published by the Ramblers' Association for 5 out of the past 7 years. Cicerone (publisher) Cicerone is an English publisher specialising in guidebooks for walkers, climbers, trekkers and cyclists. The company's first publication was a climbing guide to the English Lake District, and over the past 50 years they have built up a broad range of guidebooks covering the best walking, trekking and cycling in the World. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Milnthorpe, Cumbria, a few miles south of the Lake District. The founders were Walt Unsworth (died 6 June 2017) and Brian"
"Out Traveler Out Traveler is a gay and lesbian travel magazine from the publishers of ""Out"" and ""The Advocate"", combining photography with coverage of LGBT travel topics. Published as a stand-alone title from 2003 to 2008, it was subsequently incorporated as a supplement to ""Out"" magazine and is no longer available for subscriptions as a stand-alone title. Several ""Out Traveler Guide"" travel books were also published under the brand for travel destinations such as New York, Hawaii, Paris and South Florida. According to the publisher, these guides are intended to ""inspire sophisticated travelers by showcasing thoughtful and transformative travel experiences"
"Monroe Wheeler Monroe Wheeler (13 February 1899 – 14 August 1988) was an American publisher and museum coordinator. Wheeler was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1899. He met Glenway Wescott who was to be friend or partner for the rest of their lives in 1919. In the 1920s Wescott and Wheeler were working in Germany and France. With an inheritance from his family, Wheeler bought a small print, and with Barbara Harrison, established ""Harrison of Paris"", specializing in limited-edition books; they published in total thirteen books, including two works by Wheeler's partner, Glenway Wescott. In 1934 they moved to press"
"award-winning """" role-playing adventure ""Going Home"". Wiseman helped Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Marc Miller design ""Traveller"" (1977). Wiseman was editor of the ""Journal of the Travellers Aid Society"" (24 issues), and its successor ""Challenge"" magazine (53 issues). Wiseman brought on J. Andrew Keith and William H. Keith, Jr. to begin freelancing for GDW in 1978 or 1979, and the three of them set up a lot of the early tone for the ""Traveller"" universe. Wiseman became the line developer for . The process at GDW was for the designer to write the text, but the developer brought together that"
"appreciated the way that the manner in which the guides were written—as former CEO Judy Slatyer explained: ""telling it like it is, without fear or favor."" Wheeler explained in 2013, as part of the brand's 40-year anniversary, that working with the company's early writers, who were primarily travelers, was often challenging: One writer came back with a 600-page guide to Jamaica—every pirate who stopped in got his biography—and we had to cut it by two-thirds ... For a long time we had a problem that every writer wanted to rewrite the history. We’d say, “Why are we rewriting the history"
"securing printing paper and faced various delays; the first issue was released in January 1946, and he would release three further volumes during his stay. Wheeler married Kim Collingridge in Simla, before he and his wife took part in an Indian Cultural Mission to Iran. The Indian government had deemed Wheeler ideal to lead the group, which departed via train to Zahidan before visiting Persepolis, Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Pasargadae, and Kashan. Wheeler enjoyed the trip, and was envious of Tehran's archaeological museum and library, which was far in advance of anything then found in India. Crossing into Iraq, in Baghdad"
"of India for the 10th time? Surely, it’s not changing every two years. In a 2007 interview, Tony Wheeler discussed one of the original Lonely Planet writers, Geoff Crowther, who wrote guides for India, South America, Africa and Korea. Crowther was renowned for frequently inserting his opinions into the text of the guides he wrote, giving the guide books real, gritty and un-politically-correct passion and sometimes covering topics such as where to purchase the best hashish. His writing was instrumental to the rise of Lonely Planet. The journalist used the term ""Geoffness"", in tribute to Crowther, to describe a quality"
"Sara Wheeler Sara Diane Wheeler FRSL (born 20 March 1961) is a British travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions. Sara Wheeler was brought up in Bristol, England, and studied Classics and Modern Languages at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. After writing about her travels on the Greek island of Euboea and in Chile, she was accepted by the US National Science Foundation as their first female writer-in-residence at the South Pole, and spent seven months in Antarctica. In her resultant book ""Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica"", she mentioned sleeping in the captain’s bunk in Scott's"
"river. British travel writer and historian William Dalrymple cites Coryat as 'one of my travel-writing heroes' in his first book ""In Xanadu"" (1989). British travel writer and humorist Tim Moore retraced the steps of Coryat's tour of Europe, as recounted in his book ""Continental Drifter"" (2000). In 2008 Daniel Allen published an account of his nine-month cycle trip following Coryate's journey to the East, entitled ""The Sky Above, The Kingdom Below"". Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler spoke at the Australian Festival of Travel Writing about Thomas Coryat. Wheeler traced Coryate’s journey as he observed the invention of leisure travel. He"
"that set the standard of gay travel."" The ""Out Traveler"" Reader’s Choice Awards were launched in 2004 as a way to recognize the best of LGBT travel. The awards address topics such as Favorite Domestic Destination, Favorite International Airline, Favorite Gay Resort Town, and Favorite Hotel Collection. Out Traveler Out Traveler is a gay and lesbian travel magazine from the publishers of ""Out"" and ""The Advocate"", combining photography with coverage of LGBT travel topics. Published as a stand-alone title from 2003 to 2008, it was subsequently incorporated as a supplement to ""Out"" magazine and is no longer available for subscriptions"
"Holiday (magazine) Holiday was an American travel magazine published from 1946 to 1977. Originally published by the Curtis Publishing Company, ""Holiday""'s circulation grew to more than one million subscribers at its height. The magazine employed writers such as Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Lawrence Durell, James Michener and E. B. White. The magazine was relaunched as a bi-annual magazine in 2014, located in Paris, but written in English. ""Holiday"" was an American travel magazine that was picked up and then introduced by the Curtis Publishing Company in 1946. By the end of the first year the circulation topped 425,000. The magazine"