{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/11a7f7fa-c58e-5d12-a59c-8b912694d5f2/64de967241893100116dc37c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"August 18th - Lonely Planet's Vice President on the future for the iconic travel brand","description":"<p>50 years ago after Tony and Maureen Wheeler first published&nbsp;<em>Across Asia on the Cheap –&nbsp;</em>the first book in the Lonely Planet guidebook series. </p><p><br></p><p>The pandemic clobbered travel publishers harder than pretty much any other businesses – and with so much travel information available online, guidebooks are surely endangered species? </p><p><br></p><p>Not so, according to Tom Hall, Vice President of Lonely Planet.</p><p><br></p><p>This podcast is free, as is my weekly newsletter. Subscribe <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/newsletters\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to have it delivered every Friday to your inbox.</p>","author_name":"The Independent"}