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Globe Trekker (sometimes called Pilot Guides in Australia, Spain and Thailand, and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet) is a British adventure tourism television series produced by Pilot Productions. The British series was inspired by the Lonely Planet travelbooks and began airing in 1994.
Ian Douglas Wright (born 17 May 1965, Suffolk, England) [citation needed] is an English television host, artist and comedian.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).
Megan Leah McCormick (born August 8, 1972) is an American TV presenter, who is one of the main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel-adventure series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Australia, Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet). [1] She also hosted the television series Sea Nation, which aired in ...
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Lonely Planet guide books. Lonely Planet's online community, the Thorn Tree, [23] was created in 1996. It is named for a Naivasha thorn tree (Acacia xanthophloea) that has been used as a message board for the city of Nairobi, Kenya since 1902. [24] The tree still exists in the Stanley Hotel, Nairobi.
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. Wheeler was born in England.
The Tree of Life (Shajarat-al-Hayat) in Bahrain is a 9.75 meters (32 feet) high Prosopis cineraria tree that is over 400 years old. It is on a hill in a barren area of the Arabian Desert , approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) from Jebel Dukhan , the highest point in Bahrain, and 40 kilometers (25 mi) from Manama .
Wheeler organised two Lonely Planet travel summits in 1994 and 1997. [6] [7] Wheeler has been the driving force behind Lonely Planet's corporate contributions programme established to provide financial assistance for humanitarian projects in developing countries. The next step of her philanthropy is in creating the Planet Wheeler Foundation by ...