Lonely Planet turns its iconic guidebooks into a next-gen travel app

The 53-year-old maker of the best-selling travel guide wants to enhance your travel experience with an app. In my early ...
Wall Street Journal

Let’s Debate: Is a Travel Guidebook More Efficient Than a Smartphone?

For the recurring series That’s Debatable, we take on a contentious issue of the day and present two spirited arguments—one in favor and the other emphatically opposed. THERE ARE two basic mindsets ...
nerdist

THE WIZARD OF OZ TAROT DECK AND GUIDEBOOK Will Unlock Your Inner Magic

The recent success of the Wicked and the high-anticipation of the film’s sequel Wicked: For Good has many fans wanting to dive more into the (not-so) wonderful world of Oz. The backstory of Glinda the ...
SFGate

How to choose a good guidebook

David Dale, author of "A Traveller's Alphabet of Essential Places," says that guidebooks are like traveling companions: "You start out fond of them, enjoying the way their insights can expand your ...