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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. 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.
Over the past 15 years he has seen the Lonely Planet parcel passed from Tony and Maureen Wheeler to the BBC, to a reclusive Kentucky tobacco billionaire and now to a conglomerate named Red ...
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Maureen Wheeler, 202-463-1138 Maureen.Wheeler@cassidyturley.com or WRIT William T. Camp, 301-984-9400 bcamp@writ.com. KEYWORDS: United States North America District of Columbia. INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:
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.
Wheeler is a surname of English origin. ... Maureen Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet Publications; Michael Wheeler (disambiguation), multiple people;