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Travel Guide company lonely planet is sold at 119million dollar loss
03-20-2013, 02:30 AM
The best travel guide you can have is doing your own research and then populating a Google map with your own places of interest. If you have an android phone you can save it for offline use.
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03-20-2013, 06:14 AM
i find wikitravel a lot more useful in many ways than lonely planet or rough guide
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Travel Guide company lonely planet is sold at 119million dollar loss
03-20-2013, 07:58 AM
Lp books target the " I am so unique, more local than the locals on my 7 day trip to 12 cities" crowd. The language alone is appalling at times, making it seem like a 14 year old hipster girl wrote the guides.
For SE Asia the typical lp reader would end up being " totally rocking on Khao San Road", eating " unique banana pancakes", taking a trip to Laos to buy authentic mass-produced hippie travelling pants and discovering "Pai, totally down with the villagers".
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Travel Guide company lonely planet is sold at 119million dollar loss
03-20-2013, 12:24 PM
I just pm Dash Global over at the NN for my travel info
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Travel Guide company lonely planet is sold at 119million dollar loss
03-20-2013, 12:29 PM
Quote: (03-20-2013 12:24 PM)el mechanico Wrote:
I just pm Dash Global over at the NN for my travel info
I just go to his blog:
http://www.imaginaryplanet.com
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