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.
16 of the 60 sites closest to Lonely Planet match.
We can’t read lonelyplanet.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
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A List Apart – For people who make websites
For people who make websites
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Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
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VERANDA - Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas
Home design and interior decorating is what VERANDA magazine is all about.
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Linternaute.com : Information, loisirs, culture et découvertes...
Actualité, voyages, photos, cinéma, restaurants, cartes de voeux, tv, musique, encyclopédie... Un magazine en ligne complet, pratique, ludique et gratuit pour tous !
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Один момент...
website and formerly a magazine
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nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
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Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
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How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
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Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
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Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,201
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 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