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2 unusual facts about Tony Wheeler


Fauzi Azar Inn

In December 2011, Tony Wheeler, founder of the Lonely Planet travel guide stayed at the Inn as a guest, and hiked the Jesus Trail with Inon.

Maureen Wheeler

Wheeler was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to London at the age 20, where she met her future husband, Tony Wheeler on a park bench in London on 7 October 1970.


Wheeler Centre

On 26 November the centre was renamed the Wheeler Centre after a donation by Lonely Planet founders, Tony Wheeler and Maureen Wheeler.


see also

Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled

Season 1 hosts include Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler, writer John Vlahides, photographer Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli, Shawn Low, Tamara Sheward, Amelia Thomas, Katarina Kane, archaeologist Iain Shearer, and Kerry Lorimer.