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Article: Lonely Planet updates guides with quarterly
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 20, 1988
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For 15 years or so, Lonely Planet guides have been offering
in-depth advice to travelers who are intent on doing their own thing
as inexpensively as possible.
In more than 50 books such as Africa on a Shoestring and India:
A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet adherents are informed of the
best cheap lodgings, restaurants and transportation, along with a
potpourri of other advice.
However, a problem with guidebooks, the publishers realized, is
that travel information at times can be very fragile.
"Although we revise our guidebooks every two years, things
change," explains Sue Tan, a Lonely Planet editor. "Prices go up,
good places go bad, bad places go bankrupt - everything changes, ...