Lonely Planet Writer Admits to Fabricating Large Amounts of Colombian Guide Book

Monday, April 14. 2008

Lonely Planet Writer Admits to Fabricating Large Amounts of Colombian Guide Book

Well, not like this one is a major surprise. Why do all the hard work when you can just pick up a competitor's guide book and Xerox to your heart's content? I mean c'mon, how many different restaurants/hotels/sights are there in the world? Also, contrary to journalistic practice, he received freebies along his travels. More here via Reuters.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An author for the Lonely Planet travel guidebook series has claimed that he plagiarized and made up large sections of his books, an Australian newspaper reported on Sunday.

Author Thomas Kohnstamm told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper he had worked on more than a dozen books for Lonely Planet, including their titles on Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, South America, Venezuela and Chile.

The Lonely Planet guidebooks sell more than six million copies a year.

The Sunday Telegraph said Kohnstamm also claims in his new book "Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?" that he accepted free travel, contravening company policy.

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