Maureen Wheeler
Northern Irish-Australian publishing entrepreneur
Maureen Wheeler is a Northern Irish and Australian businesswoman, who co-founded the travel publisher Lonely Planet with her husband, Tony Wheeler.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Maureen Wheeler (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1950.1
Companies
- Lonely PlanetFounder9
Early life and education
- Date not recordedLa Trobe University3
Career
Occupation: businessperson, publisher, travel guide writer.5
- Date not recordedFounded Lonely Planet4
Personal life
Maureen Wheeler was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and moved to London at the age 20, where she met her future husband, Tony. They travelled from London through Europe and Asia, then on to Australia. That trip resulted in a guidebook Across Asia on the Cheap and laid the foundations of Lonely Planet.
From Wikipedia’s article on Maureen Wheeler (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- 1WikidataMaureen Wheeler on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMaureen Wheeler on Wikipedia
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- 9WikidataLonely Planet, Founder
- 10Wikimedia CommonsMaureen Wheeler photo by Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 4.0