It seems that the BBC has just recently purchased the remaining 25 percent of Lonely Planet. It is said that BBC paid about £42 million to buy out the rest of this travel guide publisher.
The co-founders of Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, have exercised a put option on their remaining stake. This was [...]

A popular travel guide has pinned the Latin American country of El Salvador as a remarkable place to visit for tourists, thus abandoning more traditional destinations for the top spot.
The Lonely Planet 2010 edition of Best In Travel guide has listed the ‘vibrant culture’ of El Salvador’s as one of the main reasons to visit [...]

Following years of being branded one of the world’s most expensive cities to visit, the British capital is now deemed as “good value”, based on reports made by the popular travel publication Lonely Planet.
Partly due the to the sliding value of the sterling, a new selection of budget hotels and the free entrance to museums, [...]