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  • Code Green: Lonely Planet Ecotourism (Book review)

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    Buckley, Ralf
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    Buckley, Ralf
    Year published
    2007
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    Abstract
    The original Lonely Planet guidebooks need neither introduction nor review. For any small-scale tour or out-of-the-way ecolodge, a mention in the relevant regional or country volume is a guarantee of business, the earthly equivalent of a listing in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This, however, is not a guide-book. Its editors hope that it will be ‘the start of something big, new and different’ (p. 7). Whether in travel or publishing, they do not say. Does Lonely Planet have sufficient market influence to affect global travel fashions? It’s not impossible. Or is it just a way to recycle text into a more rapidly-obsolescing ...
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    The original Lonely Planet guidebooks need neither introduction nor review. For any small-scale tour or out-of-the-way ecolodge, a mention in the relevant regional or country volume is a guarantee of business, the earthly equivalent of a listing in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This, however, is not a guide-book. Its editors hope that it will be ‘the start of something big, new and different’ (p. 7). Whether in travel or publishing, they do not say. Does Lonely Planet have sufficient market influence to affect global travel fashions? It’s not impossible. Or is it just a way to recycle text into a more rapidly-obsolescing format?
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Ecotourism
    Volume
    6
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.2167/joeb025-026
    Copyright Statement
    © 2007 Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Tourism
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/17088
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