Here at Kijubi, we’re always scouring the blogosphere to keep up with the latest developments in the online travel space and gain insights from the movers and shakers within the industry.
In this clip, Rafat Ali from Paid Content interviews Jeff Goldberg, CEO of Lonely Planet, about the company’s latest products and forthcoming deployments including mobile applications, Lonely Planet TV, APIs for bloggers and much more:
Interesting takeaways:
- Lonely Planet seeing great growth and opportunities in online opportunities including paid content, advertising, mobile applications.
- iPhone app now largest distributor of “City Guides” product
- Lonely Planet monthly Magazine doing well in the UK with deployments planned in new territories including Brazil, India, Asia and South America
- Pursuing opportunities for Lonely Planet TV, including shows such as Road Less Traveled with National Geographic
- Over 300 international travel bloggers using Lonely Planet API to integrate their content on Lonely Planet web properties
- “We need to experiment restlessly with new platforms, new tools and new services that are going to be the most useful and the most valuable to customers”
- Lonely Planet is always open to acquisitions as a potential means to amass new talent, technology
- Lonely Planet is currently profitable and revenues are growing