Making Finest in Journey

The four most recent editions of Best in Travel © Lonely Planet The 4 most up-to-date editions of Finest in Journey © Lonely Planet

Of all of the superb locations and journey experiences on Earth, how will we select the most effective for the yr forward? It’s a call we don’t take frivolously. Learn on for an outline of how the magic occurs.

1. The survey

The annual Finest in Journey survey is distributed to the entire Lonely Planet household – each employees member, over 200 journey writers, bloggers, our publishing companions and extra. In it we ask LPers to share their experience on locations and journey developments that they predict might be buzzing within the yr forward.

A Best in Travel ideas board in Běijīng © Lonely Planet A Finest in Journey concepts board in Běijīng © Lonely Planet

2. The Journey Hack

We additionally organise brainstorming occasions in Lonely Planet places of work the world over – from Bĕijīng to Buenos Aires. That is once we come collectively to debate the topic that evokes us essentially the most: journey. The place have we been? What are we enthusiastic about? Which locations are doing one thing particular? Amid a flurry of Put up-it notes and low cups, the Journey Hacks produce a whole lot of concepts.

Four staffers in Lonely Planet's Seoul office discuss their top travel picks for 2019 It was all smiles at The Journey Hack in Lonely Planet’s Seoul workplace © Lonely Planet

3. The Vacation spot Editors

The outcomes of the survey and Journey Hacks produce a longlist of greater than a thousand concepts. That is then reviewed by the Vacation spot Editors – Lonely Planet’s regional consultants, a various bunch of journey geeks with a whole lot of hundreds of air miles between them. They assist whittle down the listing to the perfect locations.

4. The panel

A shortlist of the most effective concepts is then despatched to a panel of journey consultants. These are six individuals who reside and breathe journey of their on a regular basis lives. They scrutinise every concept and rating them out of 100 for topicality, pleasure and ‘wow’ issue.

5. The ultimate listing

When the panel outcomes are in, the listing is finalised and shared with a trusted handful of individuals at Lonely Planet till October when, lastly, the number of the most effective locations and journey developments to expertise within the coming yr is shared with the world.

Finest in Journey 2019 judging panel

Piera Chen by the sea Piera’s job includes going barefoot to discover rocky coastlines © Piera Chen
Piera Chen

Piera is a journey author who divides her time between Hong Kong (hometown), Taiwan and Vancouver when not on the street. She has authored over a dozen journey guides and contributed to only as many travel-related titles. Piera has a BA in literature from Pomona Faculty, in California. Her youth was peppered with journeys to Taiwan and China to go to kin, after which to Southeast Asia the place her father was working. Nevertheless it was throughout her first journey to Europe that daybreak broke. She remembers contemporary off a flight, wanting round her in Rome, considering, ‘I wish to be doing this on a regular basis.’ And he or she has.

Bailey within the Cordillera Blanca, Northern Peru © Bailey Freeman
Bailey Freeman

As Lonely Planet’s Vacation spot Editor for South America & Antarctica, Bailey Freeman has commissioned and managed the content material for 45 nations and written items for lonelyplanet.com, the Lonely Planet US journal, and coffee-table titles like Secret Marvels of the World. Her work has led her on many adventures all through Latin America and the Caribbean, her areas of speciality, and she or he calls Nashville, Tennessee, dwelling.

Tony Wheeler

Tony was one of many founders of Lonely Planet and wrote lots of the early guidebooks. Not too long ago he’s contributed to The Journey Atlas, Epic Drives of the World and The Cities E-book. In 2017 he spent 4 months driving alongside the Silk Highway from Bangkok to London and his current travels have taken him to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and to the Italian colonial structure of Asmara in Eritrea.

Kia Abdullah posing with the moai on Easter Island Kia assembly the locals on Easter Island © Atlas & Boots
Kia Abdullah

Kia Abdullah is an writer and journey author based mostly in London, UK. She has written two novels and contributed to The Guardian, The New York Instances, BBC and Channel Four Information. Kia is a Lonely Planet Trailblazer and the founding editor of out of doors journey weblog Atlas & Boots. She has visited greater than 50 nations in pursuit of the world’s greatest outside actions and believes nature is the most effective antidote to the stresses of contemporary life.

Andrea in the South of France © Andrea Schulte-Peevers Andrea within the South of France © Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Andrea Schulte-Peevers

Born and raised in Germany and educated in London and at UCLA, Andrea has travelled the space to the moon and again in her visits to some 75 nations. She has earned her residing as knowledgeable journey author for over twenty years and authored or contributed to just about 100 Lonely Planet titles in addition to newspapers, magazines and web sites world wide. She additionally works as a journey marketing consultant, translator and editor. Andrea’s vacation spot experience is particularly sturdy in relation to Germany, Dubai and the UAE, Crete and the Caribbean Islands. She makes her dwelling in Berlin.

Martin Heng in Eguisheim, France Martin in Eguisheim, France © Martin Heng
Martin Heng

Martin left England in 1987 and travelled for a decade earlier than migrating to Australia to start out a household. He has labored for Lonely Planet since 1999 in many various roles, together with seven years as Editorial Supervisor, till a street accident in 2010 left him a quadriplegic. As Lonely Planet’s Accessible Journey Supervisor he has printed a number of accessible journey titles, together with the world’s largest assortment of on-line sources for accessible journey. He has develop into a daily speaker at accessible journey conferences world wide.

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