BY TERENCE CARTER*Those readers assuming that the form of Jayson Blair journalism practiced by Thomas Kohnstamm (and we can call it ‘journalism’ now that Lonely Planet is part of the BBC, can’t we?) is rife at LP would be wrong from what I know of my ex-colleagues. Those readers wondering if LP’s two hundred or … Read more about Strange Planet (part 2): fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride
BY TERENCE CARTER*I don’t want to waste too much time on the new book Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm as I haven’t read it and have no interest reading it (the reasons will become obvious in the post), but there’s a couple of things that are apparent. Lonely Planet can still … Read more about Strange Planet (part 1): an unusual tale of a travel writer who didn’t have the itch
Am I outraged? Am I reeling? Am I surprised? No, no and no. But as a travel writer, and a former Lonely Planet guidebook author, it’s impossible for me to keep blogging away about luxury travel on a budget (my next post) and ignore the dozens of headlines in the global media over the last … Read more about Media reels: Lonely Planet author fraud
Glamping down under? There are endless options from Karijini Eco Retreat (take a look here) to El Questro’s Emma Gorge (pictured here), however the Australian travel media seems largely to have missed the glamping trend. Except Lissa Christopher who in Carry on Glamping for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald writes: “Glamping is about exploring … Read more about Carry on Glamping
A problem with the travel media, and the US media in particular, is their enthusiasm for publishing syndicated travel stories (they’re cheaper) and their preference for masking that the story was syndicated (everyone wants to publish original content, right?), which means the same story appears in a dozen or more different publications in different guises. … Read more about We’re all going on a glamping holiday – again, and again, and again