Can you get to the heart of a place in 140 characters? Each week our Twitter team will choose a city, and the tweet that best captures the essence of the place will win a free Lonely Planet guidebook. All you need to do is tag your tweets with #twities and you’ll be entered into the competition....

  Travel loving twitterers out there, we’ve got a challenge for you. Let’s call it, twourism. At Lonely Planet we tend to use a lot of words and images to capture the heart of destination, but a few humble words can often do the job. Those who use Twitter understand the power of 140 characters...

In a series of articles this week leading up to Valentine’s Day, Lonely Planet authors covered multiple destinations where one might find romance around the world, including Iceland , the steamy jungles of Malaysian Borneo , the surprisingly romantic Detroit , Japanese love hotels , and, the old...

We like to keep on top of things, and we like to do so on your behalf. So we thought we’d bring you a few highlights from our Facebook and Twitter communities this week. On Twitter, there was a lot of chatter about the launch of our Lonely Planet Magazine in India. An appearance from movie star...

One of the best parts of travelling is capturing the memories to share with those who couldn’t be there, making them all terribly envious in the process. It’s part of our nomadic narrative – proving we were there and prolonging the pleasure as we play it back for the people in...

Everyone loves to go somewhere hot when they travel, right? Paris in the summer trumps Paris in the winter, and snorkeling on a tropical reef beats hiking across a frozen glacier every time. Or does it? After the 76-Second Travel Show ’s ode to cold weather travel and an article on the great winter...