Company Overview
Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. provides travel information. It offers guidebooks, including maps, language guidance, health and safety advice, and background information, as well as provides digital guides, wireless applications, and travel photographs. In addition, the company operates a Website for travelers, as well as produces and develops travel and factual programming for various broadcasters. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Footscray, Australia. As of September 2007, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide Ltd.
90 Maribrynong Street
Footscray, VIC 3011
Australia
Founded in 1979
Key Executives
Key developments for Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd.
Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. announced the appointment of Kelly Brough as global online director. The company has appointed its first global online director as it moves to align its online and print businesses and establish the brand. Kelly Brough, former CEO of Allegran Online Dating, will accelerate the brand's global digital strategies for lonelyplanet.com and other digital products including its downloadable chapters and iPhone apps.
Steape have partnered with Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd. to develop audio phrasebooks for java-enabled mobile phones. Steape has worked with Lonely Planet to develop mobile phrasebooks in 10 languages, with translations from English into Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Thai, Czech and Spanish. Each contains around 200 phrases with both text and audio translations, recorded by native speakers. Other languages are in development. The phrasebooks, which play audio through the phone's loudspeaker, are available for hundreds of mobile phones running the Java MIDP 2.0 platform with versions also available for Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.
Lonely Planet appointed Dominic Rowell as global marketing director. He joins from Carphone Warehouse where he was marketing director and managed their website and sponsorship for The X Factor.
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