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Tony Wheeler

Tony Wheeler

Lonely Planet founder

Tony and Maureen Wheeler co-founded Lonely Planet 50 years ago next year after the couple travelled overland from the UK to Australia. Since then, 150 million books under the Lonely Planet brand have been published.

Don’t fall for the folded notes scam.

Lonely Planet founder’s ‘favourite’ travel scams (and how to avoid them)

At a traffic light in a small town a young boy popped up at my window to report something had gone badly wrong with my car.

  • Tony Wheeler
The Overland Track, starting at spectacular Cradle Mountain, is hard to beat.

Lonely Planet founder names his 50 all-time top travel destinations

Fifty years after Tony and Maureen Wheeler published their first guidebook, Tony reflects on 50 of his greatest travel experiences.

  • Tony Wheeler
The Aranui looks like the weird offspring of a love affair between a cargo freighter and a passenger liner.

On board the Pacific's strangest cruise ship

The Aranui looks like the weird offspring of a love affair between a cargo freighter and a passenger liner

  • Tony Wheeler

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/traveller/by/tony-wheeler-p536mk