50 years ago after Tony and Maureen Wheeler first published Across Asia on the Cheap – the first book in the Lonely Planet guidebook series. The pandemic clobbered travel publishers harder than pretty much any other businesses – and with so much travel information available online, guidebooks are surely endangered species? Not so, according to Tom Hall, Vice President of Lonely Planet.This podcast is free, as is my weekly newsletter. Subscribe here to have it delivered every Friday to your inbox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.