Tony Wheeler
Lonely Planet founder
Tony and Maureen Wheeler co-founded Lonely Planet 50 years ago next year after the couple travelled overland from the UK to Australia. Since then, 150 million books under the Lonely Planet brand have been published.
Opinion
Tips & advice
Lonely Planet founder’s ‘favourite’ travel scams (and how to avoid them)
At a traffic light in a small town a young boy popped up at my window to report something had gone badly wrong with my car.
- by Tony Wheeler
Lonely Planet founder names his 50 all-time top travel destinations
Fifty years after Tony and Maureen Wheeler published their first guidebook, Tony reflects on 50 of his greatest travel experiences.
- by Tony Wheeler
On board the Pacific's strangest cruise ship
The Aranui looks like the weird offspring of a love affair between a cargo freighter and a passenger liner
- by Tony Wheeler
Opinion
Air travel
‘No way are we going to hide’: Lonely Planet founder’s travel comeback
Delays, cancellations, lost baggage, vaccination status confusion, travel entry apps, lockdowns, quarantines, PCR tests … was there anything post-pandemic travel couldn’t throw at you?
- by Tony Wheeler