Lonely Planet is a large travel guidebook publisher.

Dublin has been voted the world's second friendliest city by readers of Rough Guides, the popular travel guidebook series.

I took a scenic route: wrote travel guidebooks, chased web jobs in San Francisco, travelled, got married and started a family, settled down.

John Wiley has been consolidating its business around its textbooks, and sold its "Frommer's" line of travel guidebooks to Google Inc GOOG.O in August.