Lonely Planet, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 49Tony Wheeler 15Maureen Wheeler 14Steve Kaufer 3Andy Puddicombe 2Rod Cuthbert 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Lonely Planet comes up
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 32:52 Rod Cuthbert People to join our company who would work for companies like Qantas or Lonely Planet, for example, you know, international brands that are well known.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
- ▶ 23:48 Steve Kaufer And again, I named them Lonely Planet or Fedors or Fromers.
- ▶ 35:42 Steve Kaufer Well, it was actually, uh, we had, if you went to that hotel page, you could click off to a foot doors or a lonely planet or, or a travel blog somewhere to read and somebody, and unfortunately it's, it's a bit lost in, uh, TripAdvisor lore… 2 times in the scene
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019)
- ▶ 11:22 Andy Puddicombe I went and got a Lonely Planet guide from the local library and looked it up and thought, well, that looks interesting.
Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves
- ▶ 1:15:36 Guy Raz Do you, um, do you think that your audience is getting older, or do you think that you are still appealing to, like if you're, if you're a young traveler today, like when I was 20 and I went all over Europe, why would you use a Rick Steves…
- ▶ 1:17:08 Guy Raz But, but I mean, Rick Steves is like fromers or, or, or Lonely Planet, right?
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
- ▶ 11:17 Andy Puddicombe I went and got a Lonely Planet guide from the local library and looked it up and thought, well, that looks interesting.
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017)
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Tony and Maureen Wheeler backpacked along the Asia Hippie Trail in the seventies, jotted down some notes, and turned them into the biggest travel guide company in the world.
- ▶ 1:40 Guy Raz They all happened because of a chance meeting, just a moment in time that could have passed, which is kind of the story of Lonely Planet guidebooks, because it all started on a bench in Regent's Park in London on an October
- ▶ 6:46 Guy Raz Well, it's easy today because you just pull out your lonely planet.
- ▶ 13:01 Maureen Wheeler And I said, Lonely Planet. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:33 Guy Raz How did you come up with, with, with the name Lonely Planet? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Guy Raz When we come back, how Tony and Maureen grew Lonely Planet, and then shrank it, and then almost lost it.
- ▶ 18:20 Guy Raz And they were doing research for their second Lonely Planet book. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Tony Wheeler The company doubled its size overnight, and we suddenly started taking on more writers and looking at other big projects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:48 Tony Wheeler And I, I've talked to people who are doing the, handling the publishing at LP at that time, and they said it just seemed like we couldn't do anything wrong, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:01 Guy Raz But I guess it was around, around that time, I guess, the mid-two thousands, where you, you wound up selling the company, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 Maureen Wheeler Um, and it was funny, you know, Lonely Planet, people always knew, ah, first of all, you come and talk to me about an idea, and I'll tell you where it's worth. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:58 Guy Raz Tony and Maureen Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet. 4 times in the scene
Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
- ▶ 3:49 Guy Raz A moment in time that could have passed, which is kind of the story of Lonely Planet guidebooks, because it all started on a bench in Regent's Park in London on an October afternoon in 1970.
- ▶ 8:53 Guy Raz Well, it's easy today because you just pull out your lonely planet.
- ▶ 15:08 Maureen Wheeler And I said, Lonely Planet.
- ▶ 16:13 Maureen Wheeler In fact, it was years later, you know, as Lonely Planet became better known, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Tony Wheeler And I said to Maureen, I was humming the song, hey, that sounds nice, why don't we call the company Lonely Planet? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:40 Guy Raz When we come back, how Tony and Maureen grew Lonely Planet, and then shrank it, and then almost lost it.
- ▶ 20:12 Guy Raz So, in 1973, Tony and Maureen were traveling around Southeast Asia once again, and they were doing research for their second Lonely Planet book. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Tony Wheeler The company 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:47 Tony Wheeler And I, I've talked to people who are doing the, handling the publishing at LP at that time, and they said it just seemed like we couldn't do anything wrong, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:00 Guy Raz But I guess it was around, around that time, I guess, the mid-two thousands, where you, you wound up selling the company, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 Guy Raz I mean, were there times, were there times when you were building up this company where there was tension and there was, you know, there was crisis or there were, you know, there was all of that, all of it and a lot more. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:23 Guy Raz But it's clear that, that this company could not have become what it became without, without the both of you. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 Guy Raz Tony and Maureen Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet. 3 times in the scene