Croatia is ranked among the top 20 most popular tourist destinations in the world, and was voted world's top tourism destination in 2005 by Lonely Planet.

However, it has been criticised as overpriced, false and dirty by Lonely Planet.

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Shetland is a popular destination for cruise ships and in 2010 the Lonely Planet guide named Shetland as the sixth best region in the world for tourists seeking unspoilt destinations.

* Joe Cummings, Lonely Planet World Food Thailand, 288 pages, Lonely Planet Publications, 2000, ISBN 978-1-86450-026-4

In 2010, Lonely Planet ranked Thessaloniki as the world's fifth-best party city worldwide, comparable to other cities such as Dubai and Montreal.

In June 2010 the island was nominated " the world's most beautiful island " by Tony Wheeler the founder of Lonely Planet travel guide.

The tram remains unusable, although according to Lonely Planet, plans have been put forth to reopen it, but in December 2010 the cable was damaged by Tropical Cyclone Wilma, fell into the harbor and has not been repaired.

The 2008 Lonely Planet guide states that " the city's main street has sprouted a sophisticated and vibrant stretch of bars and eateries that on the weekend at least leave Auckland's Viaduct Harbour for dead in the boozy fun stakes.

Geoff became an internationally recognised patron saint of travellers in the third world and went on to be one of the pioneering authors for Lonely Planet ( 1977 – 1995 ).

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The Lonely Planet guide to the region states that it is one of the highlights of Latvia.

* Lonely Planet Guide: Central Asia by Paul Clammer, Michael Kohn and Bradley Mayhew

Lonely Planet guide to Cambodia ( 4th edition ).

* Maureen Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet described the film as " perhaps the most compelling film about the role of women in rural India, a moving tale about love, loss and the maternal bond ".

In August of the same year Dushku visited Albania to film a documentary promoting tourism on her father's country of origin with a crew from the Travel Channel and Lonely Planet entitled Dear Albania.

According to recent Lonely Planet guides of Colombia, Cali has recently become famous for being a prime destination for people seeking cheap cosmetic surgery.

There have been no significant reports of problems in this area, but Lonely Planet advises proper research before pursuing such an idea.

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world.

Originally called Lonely Planet Publications, the company changed its name to Lonely Planet in July 2009 to reflect its broad travel industry offering and the emphasis on digital products.

In 2009 Lonely Planet began publishing a monthly travel magazine called Lonely Planet Magazine in the UK, and in 2010 it launched the Indian and the Argentine editions.

Lonely Planet's view is that it encourages responsible travel, and that its job is to inform people, and that it is up to guidebook users to make their informed choice.

In 2009, Australian author and former Lonely Planet guidebook writer Mic Looby published a fictional account of the guidebook-writing business which lambasted the travel guide industry, titled Paradise Updated.

* Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled – A co-production between Singapore's Beach House and Lonely Planet Television, airing on the National Geographic Adventure Channel 2009-2010, RLT is a reality-based travel series following nine LP guidebook authors and photographers.

The travel guide Lonely Planet Japan, warns visitors to " keep their wits about them " as Shinsekai may be the " closest thing in Japan to a dangerous neighbourhood ".

Geiranger is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and has been named the best travel destination in Scandinavia by Lonely Planet.

In 2003 Gill, along with British photographer, deejay, and veejay Toby Amies, started hosting Lonely Planet's Six Degrees, a people-centric travel show where the hosts meet up with one contact in a specific country that leads them to another contact, and so on ( following the idea of six degrees of separation ).

Megan Leah McCormick ( born 1973 ) is one of the main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel / adventure series Globe Trekker ( also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet ).. She is the host of a new television series Sea Nation.

Other mistaken rumours regarding the Torres Islands ( some of which are reproduced in influential travel guides such as those from Lonely Planet ) are that their inhabitants are keen surfers ( they are not, and have never had a tradition of surfing ) and that children on the island of Toga smoke pipes and chew betelnut ( in fact, betelnut is practically nonexistent in the Torres group ).

Wright was host of Pilot Productions ' travel / adventure television series Globe Trekker ( also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet ).

Justine Shapiro ( born March 20, 1963 ) is one of several main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel / adventure series Globe Trekker ( also called Pilot Guides in Canada and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet ).

Google has run similar events for their APIs, as have the travel guide company Lonely Planet and the online retailer Backcountry. com.

He launched a joint awareness campaign with Tony Wheeler ( Lonely Planet founder ), and Rough Guides began including a " health warning " in each of its travel guides, urging readers to " Fly less, stay longer " wherever possible.

In the decades that followed, Let's Go, Lonely Planet, Insight Guides, Rough Guides, and a wide variety of similar travel guides were developed, with varying focuses.

Traditional guide book incumbents Lonely Planet, Frommers, Rough Guides, and In Your Pocket City Guides, and newcomers such as Schmap or Ulysses Travel Guides are now offering travel guides for download.

According to Andrea Schulte-Peevers and Sara Benson in their 2006 travel guide Lonely Planet California, it is customary for diners eating San Francisco burritos to forgo utensils entirely and to eat the burrito with their hands, tearing the foil gradually down as they eat from above, but keeping the foil on the bottom to continue to support the structure of the uneaten portion.

Mark Baker, the paper's first business editor, is the author of a number of travel guides, including books for Lonely Planet on Prague, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as guides for Frommer's, Fodor's and National Geographic Society among others.

It has also been described by Lonely Planet's Great Britain guide as " everything you could want " in a seaside resort.

A recent edition of Lonely Planet's guide to Australia

The current Lonely Planet range also includes hardback photography books, food guides, city guides, travelogues, diaries and calendars, language guides, walking guides and guides covering an area of interest in more detail, for example a Volunteer Travel guide or a National Park guide.

* Jeff Rubin, Antarctica ( Lonely Planet guide ).

According to the third edition of the Lonely Planet guide to Ethiopia, " Goba is in a state of decline and Ethiopian Airlines has even cancelled its flights here.

The third edition of Lonely Planet guide to Ethiopia notes that " war relics " could still be seen near Shire.

Although an airstrip was recently built near the park headquarters on the Mui River, this park is not easily reachable ; the Lonely Planet guide Ethiopia and Eritrea describes Omo National Park as " Ethiopia's most remote park.

Cover for the Lonely Planet guide to Australia.

The street is named after Lady Edeline, wife of prominent WA politician Gerald Strickland, and is listed in Lonely Planet guide for the state.