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The guidebook series expanded initially in Asia, with the India guidebook, first published in 1981.In the 1990s the company expanded into Europe and North America. The company currently publishes about 500 titles. In addition to books on most countries in the world, it publishes a range of specialised thematic guidebooks. The current Lonely Planet range also includes hardback photography books, food guides, city guides, travelogues, diaries and calendars, language guides, walking guides and more specialised guides (eg. a guide on Volunteer travel or a National Park guide).
Over the years its target audience has expanded from budget-conscious backpackers to include more mainstream and affluent travellers.

Lonely Planet's first book, Across Asia on the Cheap, was written and published by Englishman Tony Wheeler, a former engineer at Chrysler Corp and the University of Warwick and London Business School graduate, and his wife Maureen Wheeler in Sydney in 1973, following a lengthy trip from Turkey, through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, to India or Nepal. The popularity of the overland route declined when Iran's borders closed in 1979. Written with strong opinions, it sold well enough in Australia that it allowed the couple to expand it into South-East Asia on a Shoestring (nicknamed the 'Yellow Bible'), which remains one of the company's biggest sellers.[citation needed]
Lonely Planet's first books catered to young people from Australia and Europe (mainly the UK) undertaking the overland hippie trail between Australia and Europe, via South-East Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. This was becoming something of a rite of passage for young travellers, especially Australians and New Zealanders, who spent months (or years) on the journey.
Tourist facilities were limited in most of the countries en route, and low-budget tourism was rare.

Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel guidebook publishers in the world. After Let's Go Travel Guides, it was one of the first series of travel books aimed at backpackers and other low-cost travellers. As of 2008, it published about 500 titles in 8 languages, with annual sales of more than six million guidebooks,[citation needed] as well as TV programs, a magazine, podcasts and websites.
Lonely Planet has a television production company,[2] which has produced four series: Lonely Planet Six Degrees, The Sport Traveller, Going Bush, Vintage New Zealand and Bluelist Australia. Lonely Planet is headquartered in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, with affiliate offices in London and Oakland, California.
Since 2007, the company has been controlled by BBC Worldwide, which owns a 75% share, while founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler own the remaining 25%.
In 2009 Lonely Planet began publishing a monthly travel magazine called Lonely Planet Magazine.
The company name comes from a misheard line in "Space Captain," a song by Joe Cocker and Leon Russell. The actual words are "lovely planet" but Tony Wheeler heard "lonely planet" and liked it.

Love Hina won the Kodansha Manga Award for best shōnen title in 2001.It was selected as the "Best Manga, USA Release" at both the 2002 and 2004 Anime Expo conventions. In 2003, the title was among the top ten graphic novels on Nielsen BookScan's list and one of the first graphic novels to ever appear in the general trade paperback list.ICv2 voted Love Hina "Anime Product of the Year" in 2002.The series was well received by critics. Tony Chen, of Anime News Network (ANN), found it to be a funny series, though inappropriate for readers under 16 due to the number of jokes involving sexual innuendo. He praised the beautiful artwork, feeling the "sexy and cute" female designs were perfect for the series and that Keitaro's design fit his dorky personality. Chen found Naru's regularly catching Keitaro making a mistake and calling him a pervert redundant and annoying.ANN's Bamboo Dong praised the anime adaptation for being very intriguing and mixing "drama, romance, and slapstick comedy in a pleasing combination". She found the music "incredibly cute" and felt it was used in a way which contributed to many of the dramatic effects in the anime. In The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy felt the female characters were a "standard rack of female anime archetypes" and that the series as a whole was a "culmination of a decade of geek-centered anime". Chris Beveridge, of AnimeOnDVD.com, noted the first anime DVD volume was "really well put together", but also felt the manga did not translate into an anime series particularly well. He praised the Christmas special, noting that it was "several notches above the TV series" but found that while the Spring Special had amusing moments, it was rushed with bad plotting.The Love Hina Again OVA received more mixed reviews, with ANN's Zac Berthschy feeling it reversed part of the plot of the main anime series and never reached the same entertainment level as the television series. The character of Kanako, Keitaro's sister, was heavily criticized for being "one of the most annoying characters ever created even though she would have been better for Keitaro than Naru." Beveridge praised the fun and comedy as well as the fan service, but also noted that one's enjoyment would depend on whether they still cared for the characters

After Mutsumi moves to Tokyo, Naru's sister Mei arrives at Hinata House to try and take Naru back home. To achieve this, she attempts to set Keitaro and Mutsumi up as a couple. As Mei tries to convince Naru to return home, they discover an old photo showing Naru, Mutsumi and Keitaro playing together as children, which causes Naru to believe that Mutsumi is Keitaro's promise girl. Grandma Hina returns to Hinata House to renovate the building, and Keitaro is called back home by his parents, unsure if he will remain landlord of Hinata House. The residents of Hinata House must move out temporarily while the renovation takes place, and so Naru returns home. Naru arrives at Mutsumi's apartment to show her the childhood photo, and walks in on Mutsumi and Keitaro in a compromising position. Naru kisses Keitaro and runs off, dropping the photo. Grandma Hina later announces she is leaving Hinata House in Keitaro's care, and the residents return after the renovation is complete. Eventually it's decided that no one is sure who the promise girl is, and Keitaro convinces Naru to return to Hinata House.
At Christmas, Keitaro hears a rumour that confessing your love to someone before midnight on Christmas Eve will lead to that person loving you forever. Inspired by this, Keitaro works a part time job in order to buy a present for Naru, but injures his ankle. After professing his feelings to Naru, she runs off suddenly. Eventually the two try to meet up with each other, but due to his injury slowing him down, he is unable to reach her before midnight. With time running out, Naru takes advantage of a TV camera crew to share her real feelings to Keitaro over the local big screen TV's. Despite confessing their feelings to each other, their relationship does not advance. Naru is quick to downplay her public confession to the other residents of Hinata House.