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- The Points Guy Owner Red Ventures Buys Lonely Planet by Skift. Lonely Planet’s online presence is so bad, it’s amazing how poorly the transition from paper books to online has been handled. Still surprised they were able to pick it up for ~$50 million
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so Uber use COVID-19 to lay off 3K people then buy a competitor?
Lol it was illegal for him to not register but he also wasn’t allowed to register. Thus he’s forced to break the law or not work. #FloridaLogic
Rick Steeves laps Lonely Planet and has for a long time. In a world where most seek and use travel info found online, LP fell way behind. Info was often outdated, and since they used mostly freelancers, they lacked a centralized approach
$50 million? For what?
The freelancers are the hard-working experts in the field. From what I read (an analysis at Nomadic Matt) and understood, it was the folks at central office who were messing things up.
Read Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm
Spoiler: The answer is yes.
$50 million – someone overpaid. Agreed with Mike & Co. – I unfollowed TPG about a year ago – after being deluged during pride month. As for LP – people still want guide books – they’re trophies, after all – just not hefty tomes filled with outdated data and lengthy discourses on climate change.
If only there was some place in the world you could escape to that doesn’t have science or gay people
If only a guide book and a web site could stick to what they do best – get me from A to B, and tell me about travel deals, respectively.
But guide books are often written for a general audience. Surely some readers would want to know about local festivities that may or may not relate to Pride Month, yes?
Like wikivoyage’s Amsterdam page has information on coffeeshops and brothels, but not all travelers will end up getting high and laid.
I stopped reading the points guys and unfollowed from twitter. One of the best decision to declutter in my life.
I still go to TPG every once in a while, but nothing like what I did before they canned comments. It was fun to bash them as the marketing arm of American Express on their own website.
The comments section was often more useful than the actual post. TPG can’t allow that lol and hurt affiliate revenue.
Points Guy suuuuuuuucks