lonelyplanet.com
Lonely Planet
Who runs Lonely Planet, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest travel guides alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Frommer's
Measured from Lonely Planet’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet lonelyplanet.com
Wikidata: publisher of guidebooks and other media related to travel
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Lonely Planet tracks
We couldn’t read lonelyplanet.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Lonely Planet
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Lonely Planet, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read lonelyplanet.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01 Frommer's frommers.com
American travel guides publisher
Very close - 02 Fodor's fodors.com
publisher of travel guide books
Very close - 03
AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides
Discover digital travel stories, reviews, tips, news, guides, podcasts, and videos from the experts at AFAR Media, and subscribe to the newsletter or print magazine.
Very close - 04 travelandleisure.com Top 10K
travel magazine based in New York City, New York
Very close - 05
Rough Guides: Online Travel Agency for Tailor-Made trips | Rough Guides
Plan and book your dream trip with local travel experts handpicked by Rough Guides. They’ll tailor every detail and support you throughout your journey.
Very close - 06
American online magazine and media company
Close - 07
Rick Steves Europe: Tours, Travel, TV & Vacations
Rick Steves is America's leading authority on European travel. Plan your own trip or take one of Rick's value-packed European tours and vacations. Everything you need is here.
Close - 08 Condé Nast Traveler cntraveler.com
American travel magazine, first published 1987
Close - 09
Thrillist - Adventure is always around the corner.
Thrillist is an online media website covering travel, experiences, and local neighborhoods. Thrillist was founded in 2004 by Ben Lerer and Adam Rich. Thrillist covers national and international travel, news, and, as of 2023, 18 cities across the United States.
Very close - 10
American travel website company
Close - 11 Travelzoo travelzoo.com
American travel media company with membership model
Close - 12
The Points Guy - Maximize your travel.
Maximize your travel with hands-on travel advice, guides, reviews, deal alerts, and more from The Points Guy. Check out our recommendations so you can travel more often and more comfortably.
Close - 13
Time Out | Best Things To Do and Events In Cities Worldwide
Your ultimate guide to the best art and entertainment, food and drink, attractions, hotels and things to do in the world’s greatest cities.
Close - 14
Apartment Therapy | The home you love starts here.
Lifestyle and interior design community sharing design lessons, DIY how-tos, shopping guides and expert advice for creating a happy, beautiful home.
Close - 15
Outside Magazine
Outside covers travel, sports, gear, and fitness, as well as the personalities, the environment, and the style and culture of the outdoors.
Close - 16 Brides brides.com
American magazine
Close - 17
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Close - 18
Eater
A national site covering food and dining culture, with 23 city sites tracking local dining scenes across hundreds of maps.
Close - 19
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Close - 20
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Lonely Planet’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Lonely Planet uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Lonely Planet adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Lonely Planet’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com ip…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com ip…
- Microsoft 365 MX lonelyplanet-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com ip…
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com ip…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-456.awsdns-57.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b6e27597198dfc9921fbe2ad78e9a76012bb17d0d…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=dXpMb6IBZlmK7X42/O28YWyiXYn0+90NDFEfrPs…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=gjIJ2RsUtW45uhOaqiCkdQ
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bVOkW39j_mYbNidRhmY_ehkHhvWp7r4jFt9xn35-SjI
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-uBbgpvVXsR24MywMwiOGqYF1
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_4jhufHkSRbu5UHscxvhuoQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on lonelyplanet.com 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Apple Business · not on lonelyplanet.com 10/20
- OneTrust · not on lonelyplanet.com 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on lonelyplanet.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on lonelyplanet.com 8/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on lonelyplanet.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on lonelyplanet.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on lonelyplanet.com 7/20
- Adobe 6/20
- OpenAI 6/20
- DocuSign · not on lonelyplanet.com 5/20