Tag: Lonely Planet

Pinterest Reportedly Getting Into The Travel Business

Pinterest’s popularity seems to be taking it into some interesting directions.

Earlier this year, the visual social network moved toward ecommerce with product pins. These enable users to see pricing, availability and information about where to buy items they see on Pinterest.

Next up is apparently travel. Travel blog Skift reports that it is hearing from multiple sources that Pinterest will soon launch a section specifically devoted to trip “inspiration and planning,” and that it will work with travel publishers like Lonely Planet and National Geographic Travel and their rich photo libraries.

The partners, Skift reports, will include a booking site so that users can actually plan and book trips.

Pinterest already has millions of pins in its travel category, so while somewhat out of the norm, it wouldn’t exactly be a baffling move.

On Thursday, Pinterest launched a new API, and announced a round of partner brands that will be surfacing trending pins on their respective websites and apps.

November 15, 2013
Lonely Planet’s iOS App Offering Free NYC Guide Through December 14th

If you are planning on visiting New York City this holiday season, or have any plans to visit New York City in the foreseeable future, you might want to jump on this deal and save yourself about $6 and probably a lot of headaches.

Lonely Planet, one of the most popular producers of travel guides around, it offering a 3-day special: you can download their guide to New York City for free through December 14th.

The Lonely Planet iOS app is free, but the actual travel guides cost a few bucks (usually $5.99 each). There are free “lite” guides to big cities like Paris, Rome, Las Vegas and yes, New York. But these are of course simply sample guides and won’t provide anything close to a comprehensive walkthrough.

The Lonely Planet app requires that the guides be downloaded, which is both good and bad in a way. Once you grab the guides, they are obviously accessible offline. But then again, they can be kind of large. For example, the NYC guide is about 45 MB.

The Lonely Planet app has over 70 city guides available for download, and a couple of cities like London and Paris even have their own audio walking tours. It also contains audio phrasebooks for over 25 different languages.

I took a Lonely Planet guide with me when I first visited New Orleans, and it was well worth the money. If you think you just might travel to NYC sometime soon, it would be ridiculous not to take advantage of the free offering of this incredibly comprehensive guide.

[Via The Next Web]

December 12, 2011
BBC.com Launches New Travel Site

BBC.com has launched a new travel site in partnership with its sister company Lonely Planet.

BBC.com/travel is the first in a series of lifestyle sites, announced last month with the launch of the new BBC.com U.S. edition.

"We know the people who come to BBC.com are curious about the world and look to us to feed that curiosity," said Miranda Cresswell, SVP, BBC.com

"BBC Travel will deliver insight, know-how and adventure that connects you to the world. With first person accounts from on the road we will dig into local culture, history and architecture."

At launch, the site features a number of stories focused on popular places including Italy, the Caribbean and New York City. Coming soon are a series of commissioned stories from BBC contributors and Lonely Planet authors such as the Edinburgh Festival, Japan’s twist on fall foliage and life above the Arctic Circle.

BBC.com/travel is managed by editorial director, David G. Allan, formerly NYTimes.com travel & styles editor.

"BBC Travel builds on our news and documentary heritage with outstanding travel journalism, and key insights from Lonely Planet’s authors, to inspire you to leave your desk and have an adventure whatever the destination," said Allan.

August 13, 2010
BBC.com Launches New U.S. Website

The BBC said today it is launching new U.S. edition website along with a redesign with advertising partner HP.

"Building on the incredible journalism already available on BBC.com you’re going to see more analysis, more insight and more perspective that connects the dots on events and issues that affect us all in the U.S.," said Miranda Cresswell, SVP, BBC.com.

"Our new redesign will make it even easier to find, use and share this great content."

The new U.S. edition will be staffed by a new team of online journalists now based in the BBC’s Washington, DC bureau, led by BBC.com Editor, U.S. Matthew Davis.

Later this summer, BBC.com will launch a travel section, in partnership with its sister company Lonely Planet. It will be led by former NYTimes.com Travel & Style Editor, David G. Allan who was recently appointed Editorial Director, BBC Travel. Improved sports, technology, business and entertainment sites will launch soon.

BBC.com also offers apps, including BBC News and the BBC Sports app. The BBC News app is the sixth most popular app in the U.S. BBC.com attracts over 16 million users a month in the U.S.

July 15, 2010