scam and outdated business
If you still buy travel books from "Lonely Planet" series, make sure you understand that you are being continuously fooled. Perhaps, some decades ago, the little tourbooks of "Lonely Planet" would be in demand, but certainly not now. In our times of rapid and easy Internet access, any teen or adult can locate more satiated and content info about any country within two minutes, and for free (for no cost).
What "Lonely Planet" does, is the same you can do yourselves. It located free info from Wikipedia and other free sites and blogs, then prints out outdated and misleading guides and sells them on the dummy reader.
Moreover, if you look in hotels or airports, you can find an ocean of free tour guides to many countries. So why we keep to regard "Lonely Planet" and why we allow it fool us? Stop buying books from "Lonely Planet" and make your own creative search. Their books are static and outdated.
Not the least, "Lonely Planet" is a malicious business. It attacks on other authors at amazon, libels them, in order to promote its pathetic business.
"Lonely Planet" ! You are old and it's time to clean the field.