WorldHum Interviews Don George at Lonely Planet

It seems that Lonely Planet global travel editor Don George is about to leave the building. That’s a shame, as he has lorded over some fine anthologies, including the Tales From Nowhere book reviewed in this month’s Perceptive Travel.

Unfortunately, there have also been a few stinkers on his watch (like the perplexing Blue List book, for starters), which this interview in World Hum may shed some light on:

“Then half a year ago my job morphed into a role that was much more closely tied to directly generating revenues through specific projects. I felt that the new role wasn’t engaging my core passions and talents as the old role had, and so this seemed a good time to set myself soaring.”

This doesn’t bode well for the good/bad ratio of future Lonely Planet projects since Don is widely respected and probably has the best Rolodex of great travel writers of anyone on the globe. Time will tell…