DO TRAVEL WRITERS GO TO HELL? by author Thomas Kohnstamm hits stores this week, but has already ignited a firestorm in the traveling industry and caused a frenzy among the press.
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES (April 14, 2008): "Thomas Kohnstamm’s memoir of his time as a travel writer in Brazil, “Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?,” supplies enough salacious details to spice up any news report on the subject: sex, drugs and tips-he-stole. The first two were part of the “colorful adventures” that garnered the book a starred review from Kirkus. The last one is raising credibility questions for Lonely Planet, the publisher of guidebooks that are relied upon by folks looking for a hipper alternative to Fodor’s and Frommer’s.
"By his own admission, Mr. Kohnstamm recommended more locations than he saw while researching a Lonely Planet volume on Brazil. “I found out very quickly I was not able to go to all the places I needed to go to,” he told The Associated Press."
To read what other media outlets have said about the story, visit the links below:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/04/13/lonely.planet/index.html
http://news.google.com/news? q=thomas+kohnstamm
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/lonely-planet-answers-a-writers-claims/
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