This Week >> 1/1/2009
A look into the "hot spots", trends in travel, and travel tips for the New Year with Brice Gosnell and Greg Benchwick of Lonely Planet travel guides. You'll learn about the best travel buys for 2009 as well as what it's like to be a "roving reporter" for Lonely Planet. We wish all our listeners a Terrific New Year filled with Fabulous Flights of Fancy.
Guests
Lonely Planet Americas
Brice Gosnell has been in publishing for more than fourteen years, with over ten of those years in travel guide publishing. He was an assoc. publisher at Frommer's in NY and is currently the regional publisher for the Americas at Lonely Planet Publications, responsible for the publishing strategy and operations of Lonely Planet's Americas office (which is based in the SF Bay Area).
To view or purchase Brice's book on Amazon.com, check out Best in Travel 2009
About Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel guidebook publishers in the world. It was the first popular series of travel books aimed at backpackers and other low-cost travelers. As of 2008, it published about 500 titles in 8 languages, with annual sales of more than six million guidebooks, as well as TV programs, podcasts and websites.
Lonely Planet has a television production company, which has produced four series: Lonely Planet Six Degrees, The Sport Traveller, Going Bush and Vintage New Zealand. Another, Bluelist Australia, is forthcoming. Lonely Planet is headquartered in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, with affiliate offices in London and Oakland, California.
Since 2007, the company has been controlled by BBC Worldwide, which owns a 75% share, while founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler own the remaining 25%.
MonJo Media
A former commissioning editor at Lonely Planet, Greg turned down a life of high-walled cubicle insanity to get back to his writing and rambling roots. He’s rumbled in the jungles of Peru and Costa Rica, walked across Spain on the Camino de Santiago, and challenged the peaks of Alaska and his native Colorado. He specializes in Latin American travel, sustainable travel and new media, and has written more than a dozen guidebooks on travel in Latin America. When he’s not on the road, he develops his new-media companies MonJo Media and Sound Traveler. Someday he dreams of being a media magnate or a philosopher warrior poet, whichever comes first.