Lonely Planet is a travel guide publisher founded in Australia in 1973 by Tony and Maureen Wheeler, beginning with the self-published "Across Asia on the Cheap." It grew into the world's largest travel guidebook publisher before being acquired by BBC Worldwide (2007) and later Red Ventures (2020), and now also produces a website, app, and magazine.
This is a corporate credit rather than a person: it is the byline bibliographic records carry for guidebooks and travel anthologies compiled by Lonely Planet's staff of writers and researchers rather than a single named author.
