BBC undoubtedly will put more resources into moderating the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree forum. It is an issue that confronts every Internet publisher, and in this instance, the BBC got stung. “We have ...

Now that this issue is slowly being solved, will the BBC now speed up the sale process for LonelyPlanet? 2013 may be the year LP will have a new owner. The controversial closing of Lonely Planet's ...

UPDATE, Jan. 7: Lonely Planet's popular discussion boards have reopened on a limited basis with new community guidelines, reports Skift.com. Only country-specific topics are included, and the new ...

Lonely Planet has taken another step toward removing itself from its roots by closing its popular Thorn Tree online community and forum. The site was created in 1996 as a mechanism for travelers to ...

Last week vandals sawed the limbs off the Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree in Britain, reducing it to a stump. The tree is thought by some to have ties to the earliest days of Christianity, and each year ...