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Maureen Wheeler AO is a Northern Irish and Australian businesswoman, who co-founded the travel publisher Lonely Planet with her husband, Tony Wheeler. Personal life
Lonely Planet was founded by married couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler. In 1972, they embarked on an overland trip through Europe and Asia to Australia, following the route of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition. [6] [7] The company name originates from the misheard "lovely planet" in a song written by Matthew Moore. [8]
Tony Wheeler AO (born 20 December 1946) [1] is an English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife, Maureen Wheeler.
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In 1973, Tony Wheeler and his wife Maureen Wheeler, the creators of the Lonely Planet guidebooks, produced a publication about the hippie trail called Across Asia On The Cheap. They wrote this 94-page pamphlet based upon travel experiences gained by crossing Western Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and Iran from London in a minivan.
Rajesh Chandy FBA is the Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship and Marketing at London Business School. [1] Since 2018, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy. [ citation needed ]
Wheeler is a surname of English origin. ... Maureen Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet Publications; Michael Wheeler (disambiguation), multiple people;
The Wheeler Centre, originally Centre of Books, Writing and Ideas, is a literary and publishing centre founded as part of Melbourne's bid to be a Unesco Creative City of Literature, which designation it earned in 2008. [1] It is named after its patrons, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, founders of the Lonely Planet travel guides.